Always Quote by Dolly Parton

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

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing…

— Alan Garner

My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.

— Jessie Buckley

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

— Del Shannon

I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old,

— Ogden Nash

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

— Gabriella Wilson

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

— Philip Levine

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

— Kendrick Lamar

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

— Saul Williams

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

— Guy Johnson

In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by…

— Mos Def