The Ars Poetica Machine by Ted Berrigan

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.

- Ted Berrigan

also see Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

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