Poet Quotes and aphorisms about started Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maya Angelou Robert Frost Rumi T. S. Eliot Joseph Brodsky Eavan Boland ,, I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows ... Natasha Trethewey ,, I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories.... Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey