Learning Quote by Brett Young

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and…

— Kacey Musgraves

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

— Ivan Moody

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

— Robert Morgan

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

— Rachel Zucker

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

— Victoria Chang

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was…

— Simon Armitage

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

— Steve Martin

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

— Stephen Colbert

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley