Age Quote by Eavan Boland

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000…

— Gordon Getty

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then…

— Jenny Zhang

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

— Stephen Colbert

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

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

— Ivan Moody

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

— Jeffery Deaver

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

— Christopher Koch

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

— John Darnielle

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

— Edward Hirsch