Famous quotes containing the word poem:
“The poem is the cry of its occasion,
Part of the res itself and not about it.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Every poem of value must have a residue [of language].... It cannot be exhausted because our lives are not long enough to do so. Indeed, in the greatest poetry, the residue may seem to increase as our experience increasesthat is, as we become more sensitive to the particular ignitions in its language. We return to a poem not because of its symbolic [or sociological] value, but because of the waste, or subversion, or difficulty, or consolation of its provision.”
—William Logan, U.S. educator. Condition of the Individual Talent, The Sewanee Review, p. 93, Winter 1994.
“It is what man does not know of God
Composes the visible poem of the world.”
—Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)