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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special. — Yannick Noah

I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman's moments. — Thomas Hardy

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is. — Lucretius

But this is where it gets weird. The mole planet would be a giant sphere of meat. — Randall Munroe

To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi. — Zeno Vendler

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

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

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

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

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. — Phyllis McGinley

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

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals. — Zeno Vendler

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

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

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

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

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

Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast,
it's no good living in the fucking past. — Mark Jackman

I am a realist. I expect miracles. — Wayne Dyer

Summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows ... — John Geddes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Religion will never show the way. — Irving Stone

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot. — Peter Dinklage

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person. — Madonna Ciccone