Age Quote by Robert Graves

“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that…

— Robert Graves

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences:…

— Jan Theuninck

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course,…

— Robert Indiana

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

— Grace Cavalieri

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor