Atmosphere Quote by Lucy Larcom

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless…

— Mary Oliver

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff…

— Lee Bennett Hopkins

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

— Diane Ackerman

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

— Tony Harrison

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

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

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's

— Wilfred Owen

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself…

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor