College Quote by Lisel Mueller

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

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

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

— Mat Kearney

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

— Jeffery Deaver

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

— Steve Martin

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

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

— Ivan Moody

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from…

— Edward Hirsch

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