Poetry Quote by May Swenson Download Open image “Poetry can magnify experience.” — May Swenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the breath. Poetry… — Ivan M. Granger Copy Share Image
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“"It's not for me - religion. It seems like a redundancy for a poet.” — May Swenson Copy Share Image
“Love came bearing love A chalice of light We bathed in love and drank it Then our flesh Seemed like the leaves Enameled bright… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
“Body my house my horse my hound What will I do when you are fallen Where will I sleep How will I ride What… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
“an Evolution strange two Tongues touch exchange a Feast unknown to stone or tree or beast” — May Swenson Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
