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Helen Vendler has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
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French was my first language.
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language…
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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My first language is Gaelic.
— Enya
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Touch is the first language we speak.
— Stephen Gaskin
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Silence is God's first language.
— John of the Cross
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
— Adam Gopnik
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and…
— Bella Thorne
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I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
— Robert Stack
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Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
— Christopher Walken
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