“I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.” FoundPoorCollegePoetDecidedPaid Author:Josh Lieb
“I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.” SaidFatherCareersPoetDecidedStructureBoringSuitablePensionBoring Things Author:Sue Townsend
“As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other.” WayLiteratureCommunityImaginationPoetDecidedConnectedShowing Up Author:Robert Hass
“Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.” FirstsPoetDecidedMereLike MeIdiotPensUnnecessaryRhymeTrashRhymingQuaintUncool Author:Gene Weingarten
“I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.” WayWritingHappensLiteratureMy OwnClearStylePoetDecidedExperiments Book:Ever the Winds of Chance Source: Ever the Winds of Chance