Conscious mind Quote by Stephen King

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

— Billy Collins

Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

— Marianne Moore

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

— Thomas Gray

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 lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

— Masiela Lusha

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright