Art Quote by Yukmouth

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

— Kendrick Lamar

I started writing rhymes in fact when I was 11 or 12 years old. I was actually into hip hop before anything else.

— Jay Sean

Before I was rapping, I did poetry. I went to a performing art school, and I won an award for the talent show for…

— Doechii

I was writing poems and little freestyle raps in my notes throughout all of elementary and high school.

— Ice Spice

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

— Gabriella Wilson

I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I…

— Sarah Weeks

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I…

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Ivan Moody

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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

— Jay Rock

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

— Denzel Curry

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards