| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 41351 |
| QUOTATION: | Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. “On Poetry and Painting, with a Thought of Music,” Figures of Thought: Speculations on the Meaning of Poetry and Other Essays, Godine (1978). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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