Deep Quote by Anonymous

But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but…

— Ruth Pitter

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

— John Fuller

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

— Helen Bevington

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

— A. R. Ammons

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

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our…

— Edward Hirsch