Circle Poem

Famous quotes containing the words circle and/or poem:

“Wise child, didst hastily return
And mad’st thy mother’s womb thine urn.
How summed a circle didst thou leave mankind
Of deepest lore, could we the center find!”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

“The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)