I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere. — Nathalie Handal Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
They say you spend your whole life re-writing the first poem you ever loved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say. — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there,… — David Meltzer Copy Share Image
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I can't picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I'm… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I write poems from dreams pretty frequently. It's limiting to think the poem has to come from a sensical lyric "I" stating… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“And then a man of forty or so, with a French accent, asked, "How do you achieve the presence of mind to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.” — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. — Denise Levertov 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
In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
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