Ends Quote by Allison Joseph

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later.…

— Goldlink

Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way…

— Seamus Heaney

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so…

— Erica Jong

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off…

— John Ashbery

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get…

— Sarah Kay

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full…

— Sarah Kay

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what…

— Dana Gioia

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

— Neil Warnock

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch