A wee gem from Ralph Waldo Emerson's journal, dated October 1848:

Every poem must be made up of lines that are poems.

(cf. RalphWaldoEmerson (5 Aug 2003), ...)

TopicPoetry - TopicLiterature - TopicJournalizing - 2007-07-12

(correlates: WindToThyWings, Emily Dickinson, SafetyFirst, ...)