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My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

— George Steiner

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'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

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Nicholson Baker

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

— Ivan Moody

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 hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

— David Antin

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

— Natasha Trethewey