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“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.”

Needs Humans Sometimes Use Poetry Loses Audience Mystery Involved Essentials Wave Appeals Being Human

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.”

Spiritual Poetry Universe Three Energy Language Mystery Curiosity Ingredients

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.”

Jobs Poetry Secret Novel Mystery Taught Poet Keys Reader Mystery Novels

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.”

Poetry Mystery Poet

Author:John Lennon

“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?”

Doe Facts Poetry Mystery Loneliness Poet Lonely Encounters Routes Inception

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.”

Poetry Literature Mystery Logic Prose

Author:Edward Young

“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.”

Needs Soul Poetry Understanding Water Accepting Mystery Senses Lakes Sensations Swim Shore Diving Bright Star

Author:John Keats

“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.”

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“I won't present to you A fake ideal self However perfect I attempt to be This world is only meant to hurt me This is me; If you don't like me Don't love me You see I believe in honesty At first sight”

Truth Poetry Fantasy Mystery Honesty Poem True Love True Romance Hollow A Love Like A Life Jazalyn

Book:Hollow: a Love Like a Life

Source: Hollow: a Love Like a Life

“‪You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.‬”

“I love the mystery of you. Wonder if I would love the reality, too.”

Love Reality Poetry Passion Relationships Mystery

Book:Vine: Book of Poetry

Source: Vine: Book of Poetry