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Helen Vendler quotes: Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.

Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.

Helen Vendler quotes: I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

Helen Vendler quotes: When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

Helen Vendler quotes: I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

Helen Vendler quotes: A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

Helen Vendler quotes: I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Helen Vendler quotes: Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Helen Vendler quotes: All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

Helen Vendler quotes: The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

Helen Vendler quotes: The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

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

Helen Vendler quotes: Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

Helen Vendler quotes: I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

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.

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

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

Helen Vendler quotes: There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

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

Helen Vendler quotes: Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.