Poem

Famous quotes containing the word poem:

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

“To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“One poem proves another and the whole,
For the clairvoyant men that need no proof:
The lover, the believer and the poet.
Their words are chosen out of their desire,
The joy of language, when it is themselves.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)