Story of a Poem Quotes

“Sometimes I know what I want to say. Almost always, I can only really discover what I think and believe through the process of writing the poem. I have to let myself be ok with both states, and to shift freely between them. I have to let myself make mistakes, be foolish and wrong, to write things down that make no sense but seem beautiful or funny or weird, and then use my intuition to guide me to what feels truthful to me.”
― Matthew Zapruder, Story of a Poem

“I have come to believe that writing is an endless, shifting negotiation between intention and discovery, ideas brought to the page and ones uncovered in the process of writing itself, music and truth.”
― Matthew Zapruder, Story of a Poem