Approach Quote by Matthea Harvey

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a…

— James Arthur

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

— Erica Jong

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

— Lou Andreas-Salomé

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was…

— Diane Wakoski

In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in a dream…

— Maria Konnikova

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's…

— Ben Okri

Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my…

— David Mamet

“I dream my poems and write my dreams. We can only write our own dreams, not the dreams of others, for our dreams speak…

— Jeffrey A. White

Poet? No. Writer? No. I am just a dreamer.

— Raghib Clitso

Years ago I used to set my alarm for 4 am, so that I could wake up in the middle of a dream and…

— James Arthur

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

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

— Charlie Kaufman