Come up Quote by Thom Gunn

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

— Stephen King

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

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

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

— Derek Walcott

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

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

— Billy Squier

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 sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

— Howard Nemerov

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

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

— Tech N9ne

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick