Famous quotes containing the words riddle and/or poem:
“All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion ... [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)