"Children can write poetry and then, unless they’re poets, they stop when reach puberty." ― Dennis Potter Topic(s): Poetry More From Dennis Potter "Religion, you can’t a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don’t believe." "The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one’s own imagination." "I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent." More In Poetry "I’ve written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck."― J. Michael Straczynski "Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."― John Barton "Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can’t imagine ourselves living without."― A. R. Ammons