Celebrate Quote by Tinie Tempah

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

— Stanley Kunitz

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 used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

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

— Jay Rock

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

— Phyllis McGinley

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

— David Antin

I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is going to…

— Sam Hamill

The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People read the…

— Eavan Boland

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in…

— Andrew Motion