Childhood Quote by Sophie Hannah

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right…

— Taylor Swift

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that…

— Grace Cavalieri

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

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 do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers