"All good poets of the past, almost without……" — Helen Vendler
"All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual."
—
Helen Vendler
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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.
-
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
-
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.
-
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.
See all 16 quotes by Helen Vendler »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »