Artistic Quote by Robert Bly

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

— Robert Bly

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at…

— Denise Duhamel

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would have me…

— John Mortimer

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

“The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of Rilke’s manner…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand…

— Natasha Trethewey

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Ivan Moody

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

— Christopher Koch

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

— Paul Engle