Books Quote by Don DeLillo

I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I don't have…

— Sarah Kay

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words…

— Dylan Thomas

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off…

— Lucille Clifton

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

— Philip Levine

I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the…

— Sylvia Plath

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

— Pablo Neruda

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

— Ronald Reagan

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

Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too…

— Dylan Thomas

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