“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”
“You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.”
“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.”