Famous quotes containing the words central and/or poem:
“The central problem of novel-writing is causality.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“And no matter how all this disappeared,
Or got where it was going, it is no longer
Material for a poem. Its subject
Matters too much, and not enough, standing there helplessly
While the poem streaked by, its tail afire, a bad
Comet screaming hate and disaster....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)