Poem

Famous quotes containing the word poem:

    “With this pen I take in hand my selves
    and with these dead disciples I will grapple.
    Though rain curses the window
    let the poem be made.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “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 should be palpable and mute
    As a globed fruit,
    Dumb
    As old medallions to the thumb,”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)