Book Quote by William Everson

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

— Anonymous

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something…

— Gary Shteyngart

I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate…

— Anonymous

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died,…

— Caroline Kennedy

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

— Campbell McGrath

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

I write to remind myself of the pain. My words represents the tears that have fell, the paper resembles the words and abuse I…

— Anonymous