Giving Quote by William Stafford

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on…

— William Stafford

“When did most of us stop being poets?”

— Michael St. George

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

— Peter Bichsel

I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I…

— Stephen Dunn

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't…

— Nick Tosches

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

— Dennis Potter

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many,…

— Margaret Atwood

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly