Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“It has been played once more. I think you exist only
To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren’t there
Or have adopted a different attitude. And the poem
Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)