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Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's…

— Diane Wakoski

Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak…

— Juan Felipe Herrera

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to…

— Claudio Magris

“I'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does: Make things simpler We don't need poems to make things more complicated We…

— Colleen Hoover

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

— Octavio Paz

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the…

— Mary Ruefle

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us…

— Edward Hirsch

The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch

“Of this poetry I’m left with the emptiness of an endless secret”

— Giuseppe Ungaretti

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue…

— June Jordan