Always Quote by Malcolm-Jamal Warner

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

— Ivan Moody

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.

— Mandy Harvey

I was born not to be a poet myself, but to be the instrument of the very poet that has always been inside me.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly…

— Victoria Chang

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

— Mat Kearney

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry,…

— Donovan

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we were quite…

— Dominique Crenn

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine