Poem

Famous quotes containing the word poem:

“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“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)

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