Also Quote by Natasha Trethewey

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

— Natasha Trethewey

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my…

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died,…

— Caroline Kennedy

I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the…

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— C. K. Williams

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the…

— Helen Vendler

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now…

— Jack Prelutsky

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

— Audre Lorde

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins