Alphabet Quote by Seamus Heaney

The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book…

— J. Patrick Lewis

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

— Seamus Heaney

One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance…

— Peter Coyote

I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.…

— Adrian Matejka

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by…

— Robert Morgan

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

— John Clare

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

— Mat Kearney

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

— Tinie Tempah

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for…

— Thom Gunn

“All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.”

— Martin Heidegger

I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the…

— Walt Whitman