Beautiful Quote by Richard Dawkins

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way than prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it.…

— Natalie Goldberg

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 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

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 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

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Edward Young

“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

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

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can…

— Peter Ackroyd