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Helen Vendler Quotes

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work Picture Quote #1

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem Picture Quote #1

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us Picture Quote #1

I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together Picture Quote #1

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute Picture Quote #1

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you’re not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I’m using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience Picture Quote #1

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One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways Picture Quote #1

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it Picture Quote #1

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content Picture Quote #1

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem Picture Quote #1

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual Picture Quote #1

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct Picture Quote #1

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The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play Picture Quote #1

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There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work (Helen Vendler Quotes) I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem (Helen Vendler Quotes) I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us (Helen Vendler Quotes) I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together (Helen Vendler Quotes) I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute (Helen Vendler Quotes) I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you’re not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I’m using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience. (Helen Vendler Quotes) One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways (Helen Vendler Quotes) Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it (Helen Vendler Quotes) A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content (Helen Vendler Quotes) You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem (Helen Vendler Quotes) All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual (Helen Vendler Quotes) 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 Quotes) The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play (Helen Vendler Quotes)