Asked Quote by Guy Johnson

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

— Philip Levine

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

— Natasha Trethewey

My mom was always writing me notes to get me out of stuff.

— Adam F. Goldberg

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

— Sharon Doubiago

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

— Audre Lorde

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent…

— Masiela Lusha

I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would go in…

— Rudy Ray Moore

“My mom has poetry in her, something I never would have guessed. It must be where my words come from, flowing through me with…

— Mindy McGinnis

The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that…

— Derek Walcott

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

— Christopher Koch