Annie Quote by Samantha Hunt

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a…

— Ric Ocasek

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise…

— Bernard Cornwell

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

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

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening to Gil-Scott…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've…

— Edward Hirsch

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

— Diane Ackerman