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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

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

— Ivan Moody

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

— Denzel Curry

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at…

— Carol Ann Duffy

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now…

— Jack Prelutsky

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic.…

— Richard Misrach

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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

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

— Mat Kearney