"Ars poetica"

A poem should be palpable and mute
As a goblet fruit.
...
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
...
A poem should not mean
But be.

(Un poema debiera ser palpable y mudo
Como una fruta henchida.
...
Un poema debiera ser callado
Como el vuelo de las aves.
...
Un poema no debiera decir,
Sino ser.)


Archibald MacLeish