“Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.” NeedsHumansSometimesUsePoetryLosesAudienceMysteryInvolvedEssentialsWaveAppealsBeing Human Author:Edward Hirsch
“The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.” SpiritualPoetryUniverseThreeEnergyLanguageMysteryCuriosityIngredients Book:Blue Pastures Source: Blue Pastures
“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. Poems are not mystery novels.” JobsPoetrySecretNovelMysteryTaughtPoetKeysReaderMystery Novels Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?” DoeFactsPoetryMysteryLonelinessPoetLonelyEncountersRoutesInception Book:Paul Celan: Selections Source: Paul Celan: Selections
“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.” PoetryLiteratureMysteryLogicProse Author:Edward Young