Poem

Famous quotes containing the word poem:

“It is what man does not know of God
Composes the visible poem of the world.”
—Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)

“A poem ... begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.... It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)