Poetry Quote by Anonymous

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

— Angela Thirkell

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

— Pablo Neruda

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry.…

— Edwin Morgan

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

— Thomas Hardy

“The early word catches the poem.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

— Allison Joseph

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

— Marguerite Young

Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of…

— Allison Joseph

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

I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel younger than…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

“Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature…

— Dimitris Mita