Archibald MacLeish Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• A poem should not mean but be.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Mean, Poetry, Should

  "Ars Poetica" l. 23 (1926)

• A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Poetry, Fruit, Should

  'Ars Poetica' (1926)

• The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Reading, Men, Should Have

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