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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
Sleep, Together, Awakening
Quoted in Robert Fitzgerald (ed) Enlarging the Change (1985).
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.