Childhood Quote by Guy Maddin

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they…

— Natasha Trethewey

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

— Alphonse Daudet

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

— Peter Davison

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

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

— Anonymous

I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible sources for…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they…

— Mariah Carey

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

— Margaret Walker