Books Quote by Diane Wakoski

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

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

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

— Hafiz Of Persia

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

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to…

— James Arthur

A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the…

— Anonymous

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

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

— Giuseppe Ungaretti

Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any…

— Richard Dawkins