Always Quote by Ben Okri

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Donald Hall

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be…

— Alice Walker

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

— Kapil Sibal

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal