Caves Quote by Lucille Clifton

I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I don't have…

— Sarah Kay

One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his,…

— Don DeLillo

The finest poetry was first experience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

— Adrienne Rich

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

— Philip Levine

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words…

— Dylan Thomas

I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope…

— Jill Scott

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

— David Antin

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also,…

— Mary Oliver

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

— Jorge Luis Borges