after reticence

Best are the poems that arise after a period of reticence.

open and closed

You wanted to write, but you valued your reticence.

what is not said

Reticence is a resource of poetry.

speak up

The only danger to poetry is the reticence and silence of poets.

—Eavan Boland, "Letter to a Young Woman Poet," American Poetry Review (May/June 1997).

understated

The practiced reticence of her last lines.

silent witness

Is my reticence regarding certain subjects equivalent to a resistance to the truth?

this then and not that

A poet who unfailingly knew what to say and when to say it, and most of all what should be left unsaid.