“I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.”

— Margaret Atwood

On Writing Poetry (1995)

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Pedro Pietri (1944–2004) Puerto Rican writer

On starting off in poetry (as quoted in the book “Race and the Modern Artist” https://books.google.com/books?id=4XY8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq)

“At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.”

Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist

Congressional hearing http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSN13374647, February 13, 2008.

“My faults will not pass into other hands through any fault of mine. I do not want another fault on my hands.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Mis culpas no irán a otras manos por mi culpa. No quiero otra culpa en mis manos.
Voces (1943)

“I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Preface.
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717)
Context: I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

“One thing I did before Nirvana became popular was I stopped doing drugs.”

Dave Grohl (1969) American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter

“Whatever I intend to do, I shall test it first on My own family.”

Nakayama Miki (1798–1887) Founder of Tenrikyo

The Life of Oyasama, Foundress of Tenrikyo, p. 28
The Life of Oyasama

“Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.”

Davy Crockett (1786–1836) American politician

As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106

“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

"Who says words with my mouth?" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

“I knew at a very early age what I wanted to do. Some people refer to it as indulging in my instincts and artistic bent. I call it just showing off, which was what I did from about three years of age on.”

Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017) American actress, television producer

"Mary Tyler Moore" Interview by Diane Werts at Archive of American Television (23 October 1997)

“I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

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