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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was fairly dark.

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

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

— Anonymous

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

— Pink

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

— John Darnielle