About Quote by Natasha Trethewey

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

— Philip Levine

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

— Ernesto Cardenal

I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I…

— Stephen Dunn

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not…

— Edward Hirsch

“dad now realize how you became poet”

— sakhiabbas

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

— Natasha Trethewey

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

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

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I…

— Natasha Trethewey

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

— C. K. Williams

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding