Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it… — Pink Copy Share Image
You were the sort of boy people wrote poetry about, so that's exactly what I did. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her… — PG Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“Dimity said, "I wrote him poetry!" (...) "Dimity," Sophronia said, horrified by such an admission, "you didn't give him the poetry, did… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours,… — Millard Kaufman Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry,… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Here is Lady Winchilsea, for example, I thought, taking down her poems. She was born in the year 1661; she was noble… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too.… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
When I was in school, I was very much into just sports, mostly basketball, and didn't really see myself as much of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“It was warm, and outside the sound of insects in the night was electric. The music sounded better than anything I'd ever… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
