Poetry can magnify experience. May Swenson More Quotes by May Swenson More Quotes From 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. May Swenson degrees roots 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. May Swenson dancing earth 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. May Swenson has-beens summer long Body my house May Swenson horse body house Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it. May Swenson bats balls Love is ... the bite into bread again. May Swenson bites bread love-is
