Behind Quote by Mary Karr Download Open image “Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.” — Mary Karr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behind Drafts Every Poem Poetry Sixty
I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I light with… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“And Meredith says that reminds her of a Camus novel, the one about the plague, and she tells the story of it, the tale… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Then it hits me. I’m actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and slungover mornings… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean into feeling hurt… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home? — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
I'm not the type of player that's going to run in behind or go past three and score. — Peter Crouch Copy Share Image
I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me. — David Jason Copy Share Image
For girls who want to get their waistline down a little bit and don't have any weights in the house, they can actually use… — Pepa Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times. — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
