Bike Quote by Omari Hardwick

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 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 use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

— Stanley Kunitz

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

— David Antin

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

— Anonymous

I was surprised and laugh when I found my childhood written poems, one line was I like saving cash coins or money, but sometimes…

— Mhaj Porras

The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry.

— Caterina Fake

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

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

— Jay Rock

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

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