I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since…

I've been in small towns everywhere from the U.K. to Alabama.

— Bob the Drag Queen

My own experience as a reader and writer has been that the more I read, and the more I live, the more different "types"…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

— Neil Warnock

“What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful…

— Lauren Oliver

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

— Kate Bush

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around…

— Bruce Cockburn

I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had…

— Luc Delahaye

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the…

— Maya Angelou

“I only said I loved you in my poetry.”

— Jenny Boully

“No. It was neither heroes nor sacrifice nor yet virtues that she loved most; rather the poetry which spoke to her of dreams that…

— Halldór Laxness

Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin…

— Sam Hamill

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

— Sara Sheridan

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

— George Steiner

“We always used to celebrate together at the end of a picture. Clark insisted on it. Maybe we’d include the director, maybe not. It…

— Myrna Loy