Poem

Famous quotes containing the word poem:

“One poem proves another and the whole,
For the clairvoyant men that need no proof:
The lover, the believer and the poet.
Their words are chosen out of their desire,
The joy of language, when it is themselves.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The poem is the cry of its occasion,
Part of the res itself and not about it.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

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