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And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen. — Edward Hirsch

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey

This poem was meant
to be unwritten.
But I am writing it now
and have thereby changed
destiny. — Kamand Kojouri

A good poem contains both meaning and music — Eve Merriam

If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry. — Kahlil Gibran

Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem. — Ymatruz

She is dying because she said.
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem. — Margaret Atwood

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem. — Benjamin Clementine

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. — Walt Whitman

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

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. — Conrad Hall

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address. — Matthea Harvey

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem — Kahlil Gibran

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs. — Donald Miller

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem. — Amy Lowell

Writing a poem is making music with words and space. — Arnold Adoff

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. — Natalie Goldberg

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel. — John Updike

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence. — Cristen Rodgers

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst. — Stephen Vincent Benet

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. — Jenim Dibie

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. — Carol Ann Duffy

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off. — Judith Viorst

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an 'impression', intensely subjective and evanescent. — Geoffrey Harvey

How many great gems were lost to thought
and not put down to pen.
You can but think of just a few
and then they're lost again. — L.F.Young

A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise. — Sanober Khan

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range — Mpho Leteng

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future. — Ricky Martin

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. — James Turrell

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

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. — Anne Sexton

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey