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I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.

Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.