Childhood Quote by Mhaj Porras

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

— Ivan Moody

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

— Benjamin Clementine

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

— Anonymous

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in…

— Omari Hardwick

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

— Neil Warnock

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.

— Jay Rock

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

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

— Ernesto Cardenal

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

— Jack Prelutsky