Consciousness Quote by Anne Waldman

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is…

— Campbell McGrath

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what…

— Dorianne Laux

For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far…

— Samuel Johnson

It is absolutely vital to preserve a space where the mind, by means of poetic thinking, can move in a free, even anarchic, way.…

— Matthew Zapruder

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the…

— Rollo May

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

— Henry Beston

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as…

— Anais Nin

“The Expanding Universe of Poetry Often I lose myself in such distances and numbers that I fear I shall never find myself again. But…

— Ondra Lysohorsky

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel