Addiction Quote by Yusef Komunyakaa

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

— Celeste Ng

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per…

— Selima Hill

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing…

— C. K. Williams

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not…

— Edward Hirsch

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

— Margaret Atwood

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be something vaguely…

— Matthew Zapruder

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

— John Cooper Clarke