Sanford Pinsker:

For me, poetry is not like the jeweller's craft...polishing, polishing, always rubbing it more and more. It's more like the exhilaration of getting somewhere. It's like running fast and your elbows and knees may not always be exactly right...but you're really getting somewhere. That's the sort of feeling writing a poem has.

When interviewed by William Stafford, Writing the Australian Crawl, p. 123