"One could say that artists are people who……" — Helen Vendler

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

— Helen Vendler

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16 Quotes by Helen Vendler

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

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.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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