Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Stir of time, the sequence
returning upon itself, branching
a new way. To suffer, pains, hope.
The attention
lives in it as a poem lives or a song
going under the skin of memory.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)