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I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

When you break a poem down in order to perform it, you have to engage closely with many aspects of what it's about, how…

— Michael Rosen

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

— Randall Jarrell

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were working in…

— Pattiann Rogers

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