Art Quote by Douglas Florian

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a…

— Ric Ocasek

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 really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

— Steve Martin

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we were quite…

— Dominique Crenn

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at…

— Carol Ann Duffy

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

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

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

— Stephen Dobyns

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me…

— Howard Nemerov