Famous quotes containing the word poem:
“Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“A poem should not mean
But be.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)