Dreams Quote by Edmund Blunden

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and…

— Ian Mcewan

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

— Allen Ginsberg

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will…

— A. E. Housman

The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a…

— May Swenson

“The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in…

— Robert Hass

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he…

— Robert Bly

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per…

— Selima Hill

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

— Karl Shapiro

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most…

— A. E. Housman

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot