“Shakespeare
clearly heard may voices. No secret:
voicing means hearing, at a price a gift”
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
The Orchards of Syon II.4-6.
Poetry
“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
— Virginia Woolf, book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando
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