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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

— Floyd Skloot

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

— Alice Walker

I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

— Eileen Myles

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

— Shelby Foote

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

— Misha Collins

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Edward Hirsch

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

— Vikram Seth

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

— Jessica White

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

— Bo Burnham