And glow more intense than blaze of branch, or brazier, Stirs the dumb spirit: no wind, but pentecostal fire In the dark time of the year. Between melting and freezing The soul's sap quivers.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.1.

   Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its ownmelting. A poemmay be worked overonce it isin being, but may not be worried into being.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'The Figure a Poem Makes', preface to Collected Poems.

If the United States is indeed the great melting pot, the negro either didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

-Marshall,Thurgood
  In the NewYork Times, 9 Sep.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming† God is making the American.

-Zangwill, Israel
  The Melting Pot.