Good Quote by Edward Hirsch

I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other…

— Edward Hirsch

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 started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be…

— Alice Walker

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

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

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

— Celeste Ng

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

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

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 had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

— Norman Lock