About Quote by George Murray

I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested…

— C.D. Wright

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out…

— Amber Tamblyn

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

— James Dickey

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

— Norman MacCaig

I'm only interested in poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by…

— Robert Morgan

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did…

— Siri Hustvedt

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them…

— John Dufresne

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin