“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I've written some poems that are in the middle ground - who are in between very challenging and abundantly clear, but there's… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Offering I made a poem going to sleep last night, woke in sunlight, it was clean forgotten. If it was any good,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
