Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“And I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
Well find so good a thing as that we have lost?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (19201970)