Activity Quote by Billy Collins

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

— Stephen King

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

— Marianne Moore

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

— Marianne Moore

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

— John Fahey

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

“The unconscious does not coo sweet lyrics or unroll immaculate and measured prose, it howls and raves like the shackled and tortured beast that…

— Nick Land

Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and…

— John Ashbery

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

— Robert M. Hensel

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn.”

— Thomas Grey

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

— Vanna Bonta