Famous quotes containing the words dramatic and/or poem:
“Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over- influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)