Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.

Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret'

— Hafiz Of Persia

I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to…

— Ayn Rand

“For whom are you preserving your secret? For your grandsons? They are rich enough without it; they do not know the worth of money.…

— Alexander Pushkin

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

— Saadi

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring…

— Saadi

No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made…

— Hugh Nibley

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

— Maxine Kumin

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

— Sarah Kay

Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large…

— Lipman Bers

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is…

— Keith Carter