Category Archibald MacLeish

from “Ars Poetica” (Archibald MacLeish)

“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.”

–from “Ars Poetica” (Archibald MacLeish)

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