Color Quote by Rita Dove

When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and generate new…

— Michael Longley

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full…

— Sarah Kay

Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at…

— Nick Laird

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

— Stevie Nicks

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

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

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

— Neil Warnock

I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts,…

— Billy Collins

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

— Sue Monk Kidd