Poetry Quote by Arlo Parks

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

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I thought I knew what poetry was before I immersed myself in it. Poetry is…

— Amanda Shires

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

— William Beckett

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry…

— Jordin Sparks

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance…

— Kamal Haasan

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that…

— Grace Cavalieri

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

— C. K. Williams

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson