Poem

Famous quotes containing the word poem:

    “It seems just possible that a poem might happen
    To a very young man: but a poem is not poetry—
    That is a life.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.”
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    “A poem should not mean
    But be.”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)