Ars Poetica

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

 *

A poem should be motionless in time

As the moon climbs

 Leaving, as the moon releases

Twig by twig the night entangled trees

Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,

Memory by memory the mind—

A poem should be motionless in time

As the moon climbs

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 A poem should be equal to :

Not true

For all the history of grief

An empty doorway and a maple leaf

For love

The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea—

A poem should not mean

But be

-Archibald MacLeish

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Liebe Grusse,

Deine Vera