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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.
Helen Vendler
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
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
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
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
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