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Anne Spencer

Ah, how poets sing and die!
Make one song and Heaven takes it;
Have one heart and Beauty breaks it;
Chatterton, Shelley, Keats and I—
Ah, how poets sing and die!




Quotes of the Day

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

• Plato



Poems of the Day
  • David Lehman
    Shake The Superflux!
    by David Lehman
    I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one now, at two in the solemnly musical morning, when everyone else in this town emptied of Lestrygonians and Lotus-eaters