About Quote by David Mitchell

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with…

— Arthur Smith

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history,…

— Peter Ackroyd

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was…

— Anne Stevenson

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published.…

— Helen Dunmore

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years…

— Dove Cameron

In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The…

— Frederick Lenz

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did…

— Siri Hustvedt