Funny Quote by Patrick Kavanagh

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served…

— Denise Duhamel

I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my…

— Conrad Aiken

I was born to travel and write verse.

— Theophile Gautier

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

— Diane Ackerman

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression…

— Alfred Nobel

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

— Felix Dennis

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

— Danielle Steel

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

— Jamila Woods

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch