Art Quote by Denise Duhamel

When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose…

— Edward Hirsch

I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called…

— Douglas Florian

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

— Peter Coyote

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a…

— Mohsin Hamid

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time…

— Paul Nurse

Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated the spring…

— Lela Loren

I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.

— Casey Wilson

My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I…

— David C. Driskell

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones...…

— Anne Sexton

I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I…

— Jessica Lange

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi