Cherish Quote by John Dufresne

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

— Anonymous

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I…

— Adrienne Rich

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course,…

— Robert Indiana

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones...…

— Anne Sexton

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an…

— John Burnside

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in…

— Henry Rollins

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

— Kapil Sibal

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed