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ecargo23 Jul 2003

t'aint necessarily so:

"A poem should be palpable and mute
as a globed fruit,
dumb
as old medallions to the thumb . . . "

Ars Poetica, by Archibald MacLeish, here: http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/liu/english25/materials/macleish.html