Helen Vendler Quotes
Top 16 wise famous quotes and sayings by Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Helen Vendler on Wise Famous Quotes.
Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
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.
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 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.'
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.