Dad Quote by sakhiabbas

“We loved our father for the poet he'd become.”

— Frederick Reiken

“Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and…

— Bilal Tanweer

“The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined work of…

— Alysia Abbott

“Let yourself becoming living poetry”

— Rumi

“I'm a poet and you are poetry”

— Dylan Anders Porter

“How had his life become one a poet would be proud of?”

— Ellie Macdonald

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

— Robert Morgan

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became…

— Natasha Trethewey

“Poetry is a connection to a change within you.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Once a poet, always a poet.”

— Catherine McKenzie

“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

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