Poet Quote by Michael Pena

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

— Michael Pena

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 went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto…

— Michael Pena

There was actually a rock poetry class at my school.

— Michael Penn

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

— Mary Gordon

I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford - rough and full of trainee punks - but I…

— John Cooper Clarke

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

— Tony Harrison

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

— Steve Martin

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

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

— Diane Ackerman

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me…

— Howard Nemerov

'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me to continue…

— Dante Basco