Conscious Quote by Antonin Artaud

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

— Billy Collins

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

— Julian Jaynes

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

— Czeslaw Milosz

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

— Jacques Lacan

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.”

— Ayya Khema

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

— Marianne Moore

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

— Marianne Moore

“Seeking, knowing, discovering, enjoying- these faculties or powers are pale and lifeless without realization.”

— Henry Miller

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It…

— John Lancaster Spalding