Fall Quote by Douglas Florian

Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become…

— Cate Marvin

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

— Angela Thirkell

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

— Thomas Lynch

with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at…

— Nick Laird

I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though,…

— Richard Meltzer

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

— Marvin Bell

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

— Mary Oliver

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and…

— Sarah Kay