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