Poem

Famous quotes containing the word poem:

“A poem should be equal to:
Not true.

For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

“A poem ... begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.... It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral,
tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral,
scene individable, or poem unlimited.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)