Love and the Poets
SONEY: Now that we’re on the subject of love, who said-~ +e "Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one"? I’m always coming across it. I read it yesterday in an article along with several other well-known sayings. Henry: It’s about all that’s left of a once popular drama called "Ingomer, the Barbarian" Do you know the parody-? ea? "Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one, He wed for money-so did sheAnd: both of them. had _ none."
Anything else, Sidney? Sidney: "The-course of true love never did run’ smooth." Henry: Shakespeare — "The Dream." It’s one of the many quotations that people habitually use.who say they haven’t any time for poetry. Sidney: And — "Who ever loved that loved not at ‘first sight"? ' Henry: Shakespeare, but he
got it from Marlowe. However, George Chapman said it a couple of years before Marlowe. These things may be borrowed, but it’s possible for poets to think the same thoughts independently. Tennyson used to complain that he couldn’t talk about seas roaring without someone saying he had borrowed it from Homer. David: Talking of Tennyson, wasn’t it Tennyson who said it was better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all? Henry: Yes, it’s Tennyson liries that: most. people know, but others said it before him.-(" Who Wrote That?" (No. 4), 2YA, February 16.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 89, 7 March 1941, Page 5
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238Love and the Poets New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 89, 7 March 1941, Page 5
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