Ignorance Quote by Derek Walcott

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

— Robert Frost

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

— Robert Hayden

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

— Susan Howe

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

— Rory Sutherland

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

— W. S. Merwin

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

— Adrienne Rich