Beans Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

— Rita Dove

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

— Marvin Bell

A poem is a record of a discovery.

— Ted Kooser

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to…

— A. R. Ammons

Discovery is poetry to genius

— William Mocca

The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the…

— Alfred Noyes

“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun