Famous quotes containing the words robert, poet and/or poem:
“Over the stark plain
The stilted mill-chimneys once again spread
Their sackcloth and ashes a flowing mane
Of repentance for the false day that’s fled.”
—William Robert Rodgers (1909–1969)
“Beneath this sod
A poet lies, or that which once seem’d he.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“It must
Be the finding of a satisfaction, and may
Be of a man skating, a woman dancing, a woman
Combing. The poem of the act of the mind.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)