Monday, November 18, 2013

A thought for today …

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

— Jacques Maritain, born on this date in 1882

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  1. George Oppen used a similar quotation from Maritain as epigraph to one of his books of poems.

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