<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348233" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ars Poetica</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem should be palpable and mute<br>As a globed fruit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dumb<br>As old medallions to the thumb</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Silent as the sleeve-worn stone<br>Of casement ledges where the moss has grown -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem should be wordless<br>As the flight of birds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem should be motionless in time<br>As the moon climbs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leaving, as the moon releases<br>Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,<br>Memory by memory the mind -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem should be motionless in time<br>As the moon climbs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem should be equal to:<br>Not true</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all the history of grief<br>An empty doorway and a maple leaf</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For love<br>The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem should not mean<br>But be</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348233" data-title="Ars Poetica de Archibald MacLeish" data-description="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..."></div> </div> </div>

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