“It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
As quoted in The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary Special Supplement (1966), p. 2047
“Poets work upon and through each other.”
Every Changing Shape, Carcanet Press Ltd ISBN 978-1857542479
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poet 1926–2001Related quotes
“How shall we venture home?
How shall we tell each other of the poet?”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
"The Gates"
The Gates (1976)
Context: How shall we venture home?
How shall we tell each other of the poet?
How can we meet the judgment on the poet,
or his execution? How shall we free him? How shall we speak to the infant beginning to run?
All those beginning to run?
Michael Hamburger (1924–2007) British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm
Willa Cather book The Song of the Lark
Part IV, ch. 1
The Song of the Lark (1915)
Context: The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.
Robby Krieger (1946) American rock guitarist and songwriter
Comment posted at his official website http://www.robbykrieger.com. <br class="br">Context: In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. In the case of Tim Buckley or Dylan you have one man's ideas. Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.
“After all we [have] each of us only eight notes to work upon.”
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
Quoted in Thomas F. Dunhill Sullivan's Comic Operas: A Critical Appreciation (London: Edward Arnold, 1928) p. 182.
On being accused of plagiarism.
“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
“Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.”
Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875) English physician and educator
Book II, p. 408.
Collected Works
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The Obscurity of the Poet". p. 9
No Other Book: Selected Essays (1999)
Variant: How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, “Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t” — is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.