Elementary school Quote by Taylor Swift

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

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

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

— Gabriella Wilson

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

— Roger Zelazny

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

— Jack Prelutsky

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 read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

— Andre Dubus