Poetry Quote by Robert Frost

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

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

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

Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.

— Derek Walcott

A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

— Karl Kraus

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery…

— Rita Dove

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it…Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later.…

— Goldlink

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker