Baby Quote by Sandra Cisneros

"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have…

— Sandra Cisneros

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

— Lana Del Rey

I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it…

— Derek Walcott

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

— Robert Morgan

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I'm a poet.

— Rajon Rondo

“I'm a poet and you are poetry”

— Dylan Anders Porter

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish…

— Rodney Crowell

I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.

— Jay Rock

“According to my poetry perception, Write one a day with no exception; Read out loud and start to practice, Not sounding like you sat…

— James Hawthorne Horn

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way…

— Rita Dove

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I…

— Natasha Trethewey