Conscious Quote by T. S. Eliot

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

— Billy Collins

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

— Marianne Moore

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

— Stephen King

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

— Marianne Moore

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their…

— Randall Jarrell

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

— Edward Dahlberg

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

— Ogden Nash

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

— Victor Hugo