Book Quote by Robert Hass

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had…

— Robert Adamson

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

— Tony Buzan

I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started to write,…

— Ntozake Shange

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

— Robert Hass

I would say I read around 50 books a year, sometimes more.

— Bria Vinaite

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

— Campbell McGrath

It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I…

— Maya Angelou

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least…

— Edward Hirsch

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

— Benjamin Clementine

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

— Eminem