Conscious mind Quote by Masiela Lusha

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

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths…

— Orson F. Whitney

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater