Father Quote by Bernardo Bertolucci

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

— Natasha Trethewey

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 seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

— Robert Morgan

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became…

— Natasha Trethewey

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. I…

— Robert Morgan

My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender…

— Shabana Azmi

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

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

— Anne Lamott

I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a…

— Lucinda Williams

“dad now realize how you became poet”

— sakhiabbas

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they…

— Mariah Carey

I think my dad's influence on me as a writer, or just a creative thinker, is, more than anything, that I grew up with…

— Gracie Abrams