Driven Quote by Robert Morgan

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. I…

— Robert Morgan

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

“dad now realize how you became poet”

— sakhiabbas

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

— Irving Bacheller

My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender…

— Shabana Azmi

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

— Tom Holt

When I started writing 'My Struggle,' my father was still an issue: someone I had in me every day, someone I would dream about…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

— George Steiner

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

— Kenneth Koch

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me…

— Howard Nemerov

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

— Natasha Trethewey

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath