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.
Source: In Enlarging the Change: The Princeton Seminars in Literary Criticism 1949-51, ed. Robert Fitzgerald, Northeastern University, 1985.
-- Jacques Maritain, (Nov 18 1882-1973), French philosopher; He was respected both for his interpretation of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and for his own Thomist philosophy.