Poet Quotes and aphorisms about dare George Herbert Lord Byron Walt Whitman Natasha Trethewey ,, I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories.... Taylor Mali ,, If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous i... Maya Angelou ,, We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we ca... Maya Angelou Giorgos Seferis Aeschylus Alfred Lord Tennyson