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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in…

— Eavan Boland

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

— Anonymous

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

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 used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in…

— John Cooper Clarke

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Frederick Busch

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

— Norman Lock

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

— Edward Hirsch

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

— Johnny Flynn