Thursday, April 23, 2009

A poem should be palpable and mute


A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,

Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown—

A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.

from Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

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