Energy Quote by Edward Hirsch

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

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

— Ivan Moody

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian

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

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

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

— Elizabeth Edwards