Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poem:
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
—14th-century English proverb.
“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion ... [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)