Communication Quote by John Ashbery

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

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

To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

— Masiela Lusha

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

— Erica Jong

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is…

— William Wordsworth

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

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

— Stephen King

“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of…

— Anonymous