"There are not many poets whose fame rests…" — Helen Vendler

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

— 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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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let… — Pietro Aretino
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see… — Dan Aykroyd
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you… — Francis Bacon
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
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame… — Lloyd Banks
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. — Tyra Banks
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone… — George Matthew Adams
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may… — George Matthew Adams
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. — Brigitte Bardot

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