Books Quote by Natalie Goldberg

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

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

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

— May Sarton

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

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

— Luci Shaw

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

— Anthony Hecht

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you…

— Abbas Kiarostami

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