Influence Quote by Conrad Aiken

I was kind of influenced by, for example, the meaning of words in songs, that's kind of my poetry that gives me a lot…

— Steve Wozniak

I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because…

— Sandra Cisneros

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

— Brad Holland

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

— Paula Spencer

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of…

— Anonymous

“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him…

— Patrick Kavanagh

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Jack Prelutsky

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

— Kenneth Koch

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that…

— John Ruskin

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

— Anita Diament

Probably the biggest influence on me, strange though it may sound, was the 70s, a decade of invention. Growing up then had a huge…

— Vic Reeves

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread…

— Michel Houellebecq