From mighty wrongs to petty perfidy Have I not seen what human things could do? From the loud roar of foaming calumny 180 To the small whisper of the asp paltry few, And subtler venom of the reptile crew, The Janus glance of whose significant eye, Learning to lie with silence, would seem true, And without utterance, save the shrug or sigh, Deal round to happy fools its speechless obloquy.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza136.

The very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere twofaces; and you havescarcebeguntoadmirethe one, ere you despise the other.

-Dryden,John
  Of Shakespeare. Essay ontheDramaticPoetry of theLast  Age.

The Aboriginal writer is a Janus-type figure with one face turned to the past and the other to the future while existing ina postmodern, multicultural Australia inwhich he or she must fight for cultural space.

-Narogin, Mudrooroo formerly  Colin Jackson
  Writing from the Fringe, ch.1,'Writing from the Fringe'.