Ars Poetica

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



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 (1892-1982)

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