The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.
Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place. - May Swenson
Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.
- May Swenson
Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it. - May Swenson
Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.
Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen - May Swenson
Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of f… - May Swenson
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of f…
Love is ... the bite into bread again. - May Swenson
Love is ... the bite into bread again.
Poetry can magnify experience. - May Swenson
Poetry can magnify experience.
The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then. - May Swenson
The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.
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