Conscious Quote by Anonymous

I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something I think…

— Shane McCrae

I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested…

— C.D. Wright

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

— Marianne Moore

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being…

— Vikram Seth

“I write lots of poetry on a regular basis. In fact, it’s something that I rarely think about consciously, it’s just something I do.…

— Raven Howell

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

— Marianne Moore

“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of…

— Philip Larkin

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying…

— Denise Duhamel

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

— Judith Rodriguez