Back Quote by Edwin Morgan

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

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

— Pablo Neruda

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

— John Darnielle

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right…

— Taylor Swift

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and…

— Robert Hass

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

— Leonard Cohen

“The feeling for words comes at an early age--or rather it is lost in most cases at any early age, leaving the rest poets" (170).”

— Anonymous

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry…

— Jordin Sparks

I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we were quite…

— Dominique Crenn