A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.

Archibald MacLeish

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MacLeish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1926.

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MacLeish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica." From Collected Poems 1917 to 1982. Mariner Books, 1985.

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A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.