Helen Vendler Quotes
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One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
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Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
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A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
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You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.
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The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
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For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing.…
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Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
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For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes…
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Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
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I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems…
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The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
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There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
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I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father…
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If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
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I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that…
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