Concerning Cheese

Epigrammata XXVIII

Cheese does not write poetry, it is entirely mute.

So Chesterton spoke, as it may please
Of poets' silence concerning cheese
A funny quip, but instructive still
For poems sing a void to fill
A gulf to cross, even these--!
Though they flow as speech with ease
No need for poems where the wealth
Of a word calls forward nothing else--
Cheese is poetry itself.