To understand
The signs that stars compose, we need depend
Only on stars that are entirely there
And the apparent space between them. There
Never need be lines between them, puzzling
Our sense of what is what.


Selected poems (ed. Harvill Secker, 1972)

John Hollander Quotes

To understand The signs that stars compose, we need depend Only on stars that are entirely there And the apparent space between them. There Never...

To understand The signs that stars compose, we need depend Only on stars that are entirely there And the apparent space between them. There Never...

To understand The signs that stars compose, we need depend Only on stars that are entirely there And the apparent space between them. There Never...

To understand The signs that stars compose, we need depend Only on stars that are entirely there And the apparent space between them. There Never...