Prometheus (art Song) - Poem

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

“A poem should not mean
But be.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

“The poem goes from the poet’s gibberish to
The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
Does it move to and fro or is it of both
At once? Is it a luminous flittering
Or the concentration of a cloudy day?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)