"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886) <br class="br">Variant: One can survive everything nowadays except death.
“One can survive everything nowadays except death.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
" Oscariana http://books.google.com/books?id=2otbAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;One+can+survive+everything+nowadays+except+death&quot;&pg=PA65#v=onepage" (1907)
“None but a poet can translate a poet.”
William Julius Mickle (1734–1788) British writer
Introduction (p. cl)
The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem (1776)
“Words, their sound and even their very appearance, are, of course, everything to the poet.”
Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
Form in Modern Poetry(1932)
Dean Acheson book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles
“The poet…is an identifier: everything he sees in nature he identifies with human life.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time
Context: The poet... is an identifier: everything he sees in nature he identifies with human life.
