Books Quote by James Schuyler

From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is totally mysterious.…

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— Seamus Heaney

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

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

— Edward Young

I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for me, it's…

— Masiela Lusha

Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as the author…

— Masiela Lusha

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are…

— Kevin Hart

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

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan