First Poem Quotes
- [The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the… — Dan Beachy-Quick
- My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul… — William Carlos Williams
- The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. — Marguerite Young
- Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite… — Richard Hugo
- I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of… — Lucille Clifton
- When you have a secret crush , you become nothing but a poet ask me I 've 18 poems secret adimeyer was my first poem… — Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley