Experience Quote by May Swenson

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

— Laura Riding

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

— Wallace Stevens

“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

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

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

— Karl Shapiro

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

— Edward Hirsch

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

— Shelby Lynne

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

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