Poetry quote - food for thought?

[abu nuwas]

I have poems I won't touch either, because I am reasonably satisfied that "they'll do". The more accomplished one becomes, the more often this will be the case -- largely because a fair amount of the editing process actually takes place in the head, and so swiftly as to be almost unnoticed, when one is confident and experienced.

Regretfully falling back to agreement, the corollary of that, is that a greater percentage, if not all, of the poem, will be 'yours', which kind of ties in with the original query and my sub-query rather neatly. Some discussion, and an answer -- never happens in real life, though...