About Quote by Iggy Pop

Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

— Raymond Sokolov

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called…

— Douglas Florian

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

— Frederick Lenz

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

“I've read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry-- really necessary novels like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland. Also Emerson's Essays…

— Jean Webster

In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The…

— Frederick Lenz

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

— Frederick Busch

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

— Fay Godwin

To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about…

— Elaine Equi

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese…

— Robert Morgan

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

— Jessica Mitford