Existence Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

— Shelby Lynne

After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out…

— Amber Tamblyn

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

— Mark Strand

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

— Diane Ackerman

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

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

— Jeffery Deaver