"Each poem leads you to the questions it……" — Helen Vendler

"Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it."

— Helen Vendler

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16 Quotes by Helen Vendler

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One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
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.
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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