"Children can write poetry and then, unless they’re poets, they stop when reach puberty." ― Dennis Potter Topic(s): Poetry More From Dennis Potter "I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent." "The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?" "The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one’s own imagination." More In Poetry "Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."― A. R. Ammons "There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."― Peter Davison "He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech."― John Colville