Accepting Quote by Amber Tamblyn

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and…

— Robert Hass

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to…

— Sarah Kay

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started…

— Amy Winehouse

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my…

— Natasha Trethewey

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did…

— Siri Hustvedt

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

— Felix Dennis

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

— Shane Koyczan

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

— Diane Ackerman

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that…

— Sharon Olds