Accidents Quote by Richard Hugo

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that…

— John Ashbery

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of…

— e. e. cummings

For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you…

— Sarah Kay

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

— Martha Ronk

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

The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two…

— Edward Hirsch

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

— Howard Nemerov

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara