Integrating Quote by Edward Hirsch

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

— Shelby Foote

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 have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was…

— Simon Armitage

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

— Edward Hirsch

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

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny…

— Tracy K. Smith

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

For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try…

— Matthew Zapruder

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that…

— Grace Cavalieri

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

— Nicholson Baker