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I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser

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

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

— Campbell McGrath

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

— Ivan Moody

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

— George Murray

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

— Amanda Gorman

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in…

— John D'Agata

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

— Richard Grossman

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

— Michael Pena