College Quote by Edward Hirsch

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

— Philip Levine

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had…

— Robert Adamson

It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

— August Wilson

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

— Tony Buzan

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

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

— Joan Larkin

It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because they paid…

— August Wilson

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in…

— John D'Agata

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

— Jonas Mekas

I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.

— Robert Hass

The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day - when…

— Ruth Jones