Fiction Quote by Yuriy Tarnawsky

I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

— Clint Smith

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in…

— John D'Agata

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

— Philip Levine

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but…

— Franz Wright

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

— Richard Hell

I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started to write,…

— Ntozake Shange

Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me…

— Vito Acconci

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

— Robert Morgan

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer…

— Ezra Pound

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

— John Darnielle