Day Quote by Ruth Jones

I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I don't have…

— Sarah Kay

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

— Joan Larkin

I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the…

— Sylvia Plath

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged…

— Eugene Ionesco

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt

When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the…

— Franny Armstrong

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

I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and…

— Mary Ruefle

I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I…

— Judith Viorst

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

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

— Judith Viorst