"If you like the precision and concision of……" — Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of… - Helen Vendler

"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

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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.
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.

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