Dark Quote by Erica Jong

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 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 really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

— David Antin

But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high school I…

— Edward Hirsch

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

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the…

— Tennessee Williams

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

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