Poem

Famous quotes containing the word poem:

“The poem is the cry of its occasion,
Part of the res itself and not about it.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“A poem is one undivided, unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom it was matured.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level.
Look at it talking to you.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)