Deals Quote by Adrienne Rich

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them…

— John Dufresne

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

— Andre Dubus

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an…

— John Burnside

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've…

— Edward Hirsch

My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read…

— Lucia Perillo

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty…

— Robert Adamson

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

— Benjamin Clementine