Firsts Quote by Marguerite Young

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I write from the various experiences I live. Not every poem comes from my personal experience, though. It could be something that a friend…

— Rupi Kaur

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

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 I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline,…

— Rosanne Cash

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

— Niki de St. Phalle

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion