Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“...care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ...”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“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)