Blur Quote by Forrest Gander

“And from then on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent, Devouring the green azure where, like a…

— Anonymous

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 secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.”

— Fumiko Enchi

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

“she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another, the story…

— Edna O'Brien

“She began to whisper something in my ear. It’s the strangest thing about poetry—you can tell it’s poetry, even if you don’t speak the…

— Neil Gaiman

“In Poetry class, Professor Sappho teaches us how to compose love ballads. She's a swell teacher and all but I'm not sure I understand…

— Tai Odunsi

Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels…

— Thomas Carlyle

“The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the…

— Beth Kephart

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

“No words can express what was happening in the pure soul of the girl: it was a secret for her; let it remain a…

— Turgenev Ivan