Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“In the domain of art there is no light without heat.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“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] (1920–1970)