Lyric Poem

Famous quotes containing the words lyric and/or poem:

    “As I have known them passionate and fine,
    The gold for which they leave the golden line
    Of lyric is a golden light divine,
    Never the gold of darkness from a mine.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “A poem should be palpable and mute
    As a globed fruit,
    Dumb
    As old medallions to the thumb,”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)