Emptiness Quote by Giuseppe Ungaretti

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

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

— Hafiz Of Persia

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

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

— Maxine Kumin

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

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

— Stanley Kunitz

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

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry”

— Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore