Poet Quotes and aphorisms about graduate Natasha Trethewey ,, I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories.... Gil Scott-Heron Marilyn Nelson Maxine Kumin ,, The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't kno... Marilyn Hacker David Ferry ,, I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child... Natasha Trethewey Seamus Heaney