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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.

~Helen Vendler

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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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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.'

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

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: April 30th, 1933

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