Abandonment Quote by Sigmund Freud

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the…

— Plato

...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval…

— Janet Frame

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

— Allen Ginsberg

The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences:…

— Jan Theuninck

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

— Jean Anouilh

The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a tried metrical…

— Laura Riding

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

— Jennifer Stone

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer…

— Matthew Zapruder

“There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments…

— William Gibson