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I was kind of influenced by, for example, the meaning of words in songs, that's kind of my poetry that gives me a lot…

— Steve Wozniak

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being…

— Vikram Seth

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not…

— Edward Hirsch

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

— Gerard Malanga

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the…

— Francesca Lia Block

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Jack Prelutsky

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of…

— Lorde

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny…

— Tracy K. Smith

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died,…

— Caroline Kennedy