Development Quote by Dylan Thomas

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

— John Hegley

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from…

— Edward Hirsch

In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle…

— Adam Kirsch

“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a…

— Mary Karr

“I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and…

— Elizabeth Wein

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son,…

— Richard Francis Burton

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern…

— Andrew Motion

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

— Tinie Tempah

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

— Norman MacCaig

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

— Walter Kirn

“Poems arrive ready to begin. Poets are only the transportation.”

— Mary Oliver

“I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'.”

— Tove Jansson