Hard Quote by Jack Tatum

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been…

— Shane McCrae

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to…

— Derek Walcott

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

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

— Frederick Busch

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

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

— Ivan Moody