Creating Quote by Sarah Kay

The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for…

— Sarah Kay

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words…

— Dylan Thomas

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

— Philip Levine

One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his,…

— Don DeLillo

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I…

— Sylvia Plath

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

The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day - when…

— Ruth Jones

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

— Jonas Mekas

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry…

— Jordin Sparks