If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.
10th cook dinner
These are some quotes by American author Maxine Kumin Poet, who lived between June 6, 1925 and February 6, 2014.