My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.
I like poems that are complex.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.
I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.