Adult Quote by Kate Thompson

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

— Helen Dunmore

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

— Tony Buzan

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Anonymous

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 really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them…

— John Dufresne

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on…

— Willie Nelson