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 freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.Collection: Play
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.Collection: Wind
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.Collection: Summer
Poetry can magnify experience.Collection: Poetry
Love is ... the bite into bread again.Collection: Love Is
Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.Collection: Bats