May Swenson Quotes

• 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.

  May Swenson

  Play, Roots, Degrees

  May Swenson, Gardner McFall (1998). “Made with words”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• 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

  Wind, Dancing, Earth

  May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.675, Library of America

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• Body my house
  my horse my hound
  what will I do
  when you are fallen

  May Swenson

  Horse, House, Body

  "Question" l. 1 (1954)

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• 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

  Summer, Long, Has Beens

  May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.96, Library of America

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• Poetry can magnify experience.

  May Swenson

  Poetry

  May Swenson (1971). “More poems to solve”, Atheneum

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• Love is ... the bite into bread again.

  May Swenson

  Love Is, Bread, Bites

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• Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.

  May Swenson

  Bats, Balls

  May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.495, Library of America

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