"A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as……" — Helen Vendler

"A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content."

— Helen Vendler

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16 Quotes by Helen Vendler

Helen Vendler has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic,…
Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are…
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a…
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought… — Frank Abagnale
A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they… — Dave Attell
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
Be content to seem what you really are. — Marcus Aurelius
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with… — Francis Bacon
There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. — Kevin Bacon
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being… — Drew Barrymore
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you… — Glenn Beck
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great… — Pope Benedict XVI

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