College Quote by Edward Hirsch

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

— Anonymous

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

— Masiela Lusha

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

— Naveen Andrews

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

I love poetry and my country above all else in the world,

— Fyodor Tyutchev

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

— Ivan Moody

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

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

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

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

— Steve Martin