Poem Describes

Famous quotes containing the words poem and/or describes:

“The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Please stop using the word “Negro.”... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
—Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)