Jane Yolen Quotes

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

I like to write poetry.

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

The crown of literature is poetry.

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

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

I didn't study writing or drama or anything like that... that was not really a viable route for me.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

I'm a poet.

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry