Back Quote by August Wilson

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

— Philip Levine

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least…

— Edward Hirsch

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

— August Wilson

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

— Derek Walcott

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many,…

— Margaret Atwood

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

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

— Anonymous

The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

— Mary Karr

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

— James Fenton

I started writing - I began my career at the age of 20, on April 1st, 1965, when... My sister was going to Fordham…

— August Wilson

I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

— Lucille Clifton