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A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb, - Archibald MacLeish
Attribution: Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), U.S. poet. Ars Poetica (l. 1–4). . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.

Categories: Poetry And Poets

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