“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
Robert Frost
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde
“I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”
William Faulkner
“Writing a poem is discovering”
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
Emily Dickinson
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking”
Jean de la Bruyere
“I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.”
Carl Sandburg
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