Even Quote by Anne Sexton

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

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

— Anonymous

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

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

— Steve Martin

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now…

— Jack Prelutsky

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

— Stephen Colbert

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died,…

— Caroline Kennedy

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt

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