“No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.”
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)
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Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
"The State of the Theatre" an interview by Henry Brandon in Harpers 221 (November 1960)
Context: I cannot write anything that I understand too well. If I know what something means to me, if I have already come to the end of it as an experience, I can't write it because it seems a twice-told tale. I have to astonish myself, and that of course is a very costly way of going about things, because you can go up a dead end and discover that it's beyond your capacity to discover some organism underneath your feeling, and you're left simply with a formless feeling which is not itself art. It's inexpressible and one must leave it until it is hardened and becomes something that has form and has some possibility of being communicated. It might take a year or two or three or four to emerge.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Source: The Temple of Fame (1711), Lines 468-472.
“Pall on her temper, like a twice-told tale.”
Mark Akenside book The Pleasures of the Imagination
Book I, line 220
The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
