Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“Dark is the world, where your light shined never;
Well is he born, that may behold you ever.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“The poem refreshes life so that we share,
For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies
Belief in an immaculate beginning
And sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
To an immaculate end. We move between these points:
From that ever-early candor to its late plural....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)