Discovery Quote by Rita Dove

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

— Marvin Bell

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

— Rita Dove

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

I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're…

— Billy Collins

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape,…

— Aase Berg

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

A poem is a record of a discovery.

— Ted Kooser

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

— Charles Olson