Elementary school Quote by Cecile McLorin Salvant

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and…

— Sarah Kay

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head…

— Taylor Swift

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right…

— Taylor Swift

I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.

— Jay Rock

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

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

— David Antin

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry…

— Jordin Sparks

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

— Ivan Moody