#poems

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#bigger #book #books #collection #difference

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#clear #end #ending #hard #hard way

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#bad #created #during #few #great

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#brought #failed #our #poems #readers

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#brooks #corner #editors #i #later

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#guess #i #i write #love #much

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#book #everyone #going #novel #poems

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems! ↗

— Andy Richter

#emily #i #know #poems

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. ↗

— Philip Levine

#always #am #because #grew #i

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. ↗