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> [I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/i-like-art-history-and-art-criticism-leo-steinberg-has-always-been-my-2/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

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## More by Helen Vendler

> [You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/you-don-t-read-or-overhear-the-voice-in-the-poem-you-are-the-voice-in/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/i-wouldn-t-be-very-happy-if-a-poet-read-what-i-had-written-and-said/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/each-poem-leads-you-to-the-questions-it-makes-sense-to-ask-it/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/i-like-art-history-and-art-criticism-leo-steinberg-has-always-been-my/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/i-think-that-a-lot-of-things-are-hard-to-read-if-you-re-not-in-the/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/if-you-like-the-precision-and-concision-of-poetry-a-page-of-prose-is/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/i-liked-teaching-henry-james-when-you-look-down-at-a-henry-james/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/the-non-artists-among-us-are-always-terribly-busy-but-finally/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/i-would-like-to-spend-more-time-with-spanish-poetry-i-know-french/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/the-art-of-utterance-persuades-initially-by-its-music-and-its-rhythm/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/i-like-art-history-and-art-criticism-leo-steinberg-has-always-been-my-2/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/twentieth-century-american-poetry-has-been-one-of-the-glories-of/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/i-do-not-give-the-honorific-name-of-poetry-to-the-primitive-and-the/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/one-could-say-that-artists-are-people-who-think-naturally-in-highly/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

> [All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-vendler/all-good-poets-of-the-past-almost-without-exception-were-at-least/)

[Helen Vendler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-vendler/)

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