Brain Quote by Betsy Lerner

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems…

— Betsy Lerner

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your…

— Carolyn Kizer

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

— Alfred de Vigny

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

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

— Margaret Walker

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know…

— Pablo Neruda

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

— Carol Ann Duffy

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

— Allen Tate