Composition Quote by Aaron Belz

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping…

— A. R. Ammons

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

— Robert Morgan

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing…

— PJ Harvey

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and…

— Kacey Musgraves

I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm…

— Allison Joseph

I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are…

— Cate Marvin

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

— Kapil Sibal

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and…

— Sarah Kay