Always Quote by Pink

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

— Bishop Briggs

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

— Rick Springfield

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they…

— Mariah Carey

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 was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Sylvia Plath

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark…

— Joshua Homme

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started…

— Amy Winehouse

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco