Art Quote by Edward Hirsch

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry,…

— Donovan

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

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

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

— Nicholson Baker

Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.

— Sebastian Lelio

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

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'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became…

— Natasha Trethewey