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" 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
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" 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. "
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" There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. "
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" 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. "
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" If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. "
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" I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. "
Helen Vendler
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" 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. "
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" The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. "
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" 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. "
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