Make sense Quote by Helen Vendler Download Open image “Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.” — Helen Vendler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Make sense Poetry
People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions.… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
To the question always asked, 'why do you write?' the response of the poet will always be the briefest 'In order to live better.' — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
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… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
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… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Guess it didn't go so well, huh?" "What was your first clue?" I turned my head slightly, then went back to staring blankly out… — Michelle Mankin Copy Share Image
It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is? — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The reality is… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
It comes a moment that someone says something really small, but fits so perfect into your heart that everything start to make sense!! — Laylablack Copy Share Image
I am part of the Fellowship of the Unashamed... My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is in God's hands...… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at… — Adam Kluger Copy Share Image
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