"There are not many poets whose fame rests…" — Helen Vendler
"There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work."
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Helen Vendler
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16 Quotes by Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler has 16 quotes on this site.
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One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
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Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
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A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
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You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.
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The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
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For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic,…
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Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
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For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are…
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Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
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I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a…
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The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
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More Fame Quotes
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
— Francis Bacon
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you…
— Francis Bacon
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some…
— Kevin Bacon
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame…
— Lloyd Banks
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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
— Tyra Banks
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone…
— George Matthew Adams
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
— Brigitte Bardot
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