Top 36 Vendler Quotes
#1. My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.
Marquis De Lafayette
#2. For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn't written for poets, it's written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it's true for oneself.
Helen Vendler
#3. 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
#4. All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
Helen Vendler
#5. You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.
Lish McBride
#7. A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
Helen Vendler
#8. 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
#9. Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
Helen Vendler
#10. Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
Zeno Vendler
#12. Forgive yourself for being an imperfect human being. The goddess doesn't expect perfection, although she does expect you to try and do better. Allow yourself to be happy. Live the life you want, and follow the path of your heart.
Deborah Blake
#13. 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
#14. IT'S COLD WATER IN THE FACE TO REALIZE YOU'RE NOT NEARLY AS SPECIAL AND AS UNUSUAL AS YOU MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT WHEN YOU WERE AN ALIENATED TEENAGER.
Adrian Tomine
#15. The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
Helen Vendler
#16. 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
#17. Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.
Helen Vendler
#18. One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
Helen Vendler
#19. No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.
Neal Boortz
#21. In the final analysis, it is not critics who create literary canons, it is other writers who create them ... A writer can have published thirty-seven volumes, but if that writer doesn't interest other writers, they will all molder in the library and nobody will ever want to read them again.
Helen Vendler
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Kurt A. David
#23. I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.
Helen Vendler
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.
Zeno Vendler
#27. The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
Helen Vendler
#28. I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
Helen Vendler
#30. Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
Helen Vendler
#31. Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
Helen Vendler
#32. You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.
Travis Luedke
#33. There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
Helen Vendler
#34. 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
#35. To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.
Zeno Vendler
#36. I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a lot of the work gets done when you have something on your mind while you're doing many other things.
Helen Vendler
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