Age Quote by Bayard Taylor

I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we were quite…

— Dominique Crenn

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

— Pablo Neruda

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 was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

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

— Anonymous

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

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was…

— Lucy Larcom

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo