Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“Have you ever turned toward an intellectual in a time of authentic anguish and encountered his light appraisal, or evasion, of your grief? Or turned to him in a situation of light import only to be met with a heavy, superfluous solemnity?”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)