Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“A light he was to no one but himself.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion ... [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)