Alone Quote by Gerard Malanga

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry.…

— Edwin Morgan

I first got caught up in this marvelous feeling of being spoken to in that very direct, private, magical way by a poem when…

— Tracy K. Smith

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny…

— Tracy K. Smith

Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing…

— Billy Collins

I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we…

— Stephen Fry

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 wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

— Danielle Steel

Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I…

— Jenny Zhang

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

— Ivan Moody

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

— Kelsea Ballerini