Hard Quote by David Antin

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

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 always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

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

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also,…

— Mary Oliver

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

— Shelby Lynne

Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into…

— Gioconda Belli

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't…

— David Antin

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion