Discovery Quote by Robert Hayden

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Denise Levertov

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 not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

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

— Derek Walcott

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

— C. K. Williams

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and…

— Sarah Kay