Prometheus (art Song) - Poem

Famous quotes containing the word poem:

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

“The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)