Last night Quote by Jarod Kintz

Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.

— David Berman

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

“They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it. (On being…

— Robert Bly

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

— Kevin Sessums

“A poem isn't finished until it's heard.”

— Jade Foster

“I flopped onto my bed and tried to burn a whole in the ceiling with my glare. It was a good thing,not getting the…

— Kiersten White

“Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose rejection count…

— Jennifer Weiner

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

— Patrick Kavanagh

This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get…

— Tim Maleeny

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day…

— Rita Dove

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