Discovery Quote by Robert Hayden

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

— Matthea Harvey

The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions.…

— Pattiann Rogers

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

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject.…

— Maurice Sendak

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.

— Nathalie Handal

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to…

— Wendy Cope

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

— Matthea Harvey

I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to…

— Sarah Kay

Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems…

— Richard Blanco

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing…

— Ted Kooser

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

— Robert Frost

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem -…

— Jimmy Carter