Dog Quote by Michael Donaghy

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

— Masiela Lusha

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at…

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

— Mat Kearney

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry.…

— Edwin Morgan

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I learnt English later in life.

— Raza Murad

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that…

— Grace Cavalieri

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

— Mat Kearney

I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music…

— Caterina Fake

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

I always loved poetry and language was always my favourite subject.

— Latto

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later…

— Sharon Creech