Books Quote by Masiela Lusha

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think…

— James Schuyler

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

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the…

— James Arthur

I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain…

— Billy Collins

“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as…

— James Laughlin

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

— Edward Young

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

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and…

— Kevin Young