Education Quote by Rakim

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

— Yukmouth

When I first spit my first rhyme in public on my school bus, I had an audience.

— Tech N9ne

You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work…

— Norton Juster

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all…

— Brian Regan

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to…

— Patrick White

When you're good at something, there's always someone to spit on you.

— Rusev

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I…

— Sylvia Plath

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other…

— Edward Hirsch

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

— Dolly Parton

“ESAELP GNITTIPS ON This mysterious decree would incite me to defy it and spit on the ground at once, but because the police were…

— Orhan Pamuk