Accepting Quote by Robert Bly

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was…

— Harry Mathews

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

— Robert Bly

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write…

— Grace Paley

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly…

— Sylvia Plath

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

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

— Tom Holt

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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

— Paul Engle

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did…

— Siri Hustvedt

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson