In his search for a poetics of corality, Manuel Gusmão's poetic work is permanently crossed by the voices of others. Maria Velho da Costa is frequently summoned as one of these voices of otherness. The present work intends to identify some of those allusion and quotation gestures in the poetic’s work of Manuel Gusmão, analyzing how Maria Velho da Costa’s work is received and transformed in his writings and how it reveals, among others, the bi-directionality of reading-writing relationship. Suggested by the observable continuity between Manuel Gusmão's essay works and his choices produced in the field of poetic (re)elaboration, the relationship between intertextuality and the hermeneutic/critical process is considered.