Dark Quote by Anthony Hecht

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

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

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

— Robert Bridges

Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are…

— John Banville

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it.…

— Natalie Goldberg