I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

“When you write poetry honestly, and when you read it honestly, then you become an individual and build up a defense against becoming programmed.…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

— Paul Engle

“Making it in poetry The young teller at the credit union asked why so many small checks from universities? Because I write poems I…

— Bob Hicok

To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we were quite…

— Dominique Crenn

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every…

— Knut Hamsun

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

— George Noory

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

— Imre Kertész

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a…

— Peter Hedges

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

— Robin Lim

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

— Norman Lock

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me…

— Barbara Hamby

“If you yourself paint or write poetry perhaps, you'll know how it feels to want to produce something ad be frustrated; your mind sulks…

— Kenneth Lillington