Helen Vendler Quotes

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.

Helen Vendler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 30, 1933

Topics

WordsThinkTraditionLongYouFlow

I went to sleep away camp seven years in a row. I was such a pro.

Joe Jonas

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Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder.

Jennifer Granholm

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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

John Crowe Ransom

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There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.

Jeff Ament

LifeMovingFeelMagicYouGreater

Mitt Romney saying that Barack Obama gets an F is one of the most ridiculous things that he has said in this race.

Stephanie Cutter

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My parents had met in high school and married right after my father came back from World War II. They honeymooned in Paris and returned to that city when my father, in college on the G.I. Bill, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.

Mary Gaitskill

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I did the plays in middle school. I was cast as a gate in my fourth grade play, and every year I got a bigger role. Then, in 7th grade, I played Smike in 'Nicholas Nickleby,' and the casting director saw me and asked me to audition for a movie. That movie led to me getting 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

Lucas Hedges

SchoolMeYearPlayDirectorGate

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

Josh Ryan Evans

HeartYouKnowThreeSurgeryStuck

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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In 1997, we took time off, and that's when Oasis broke and Princess Diana died and I was home with my baby hating the music industry. People asked what I thought about the Spice Girls, and honestly, I was so happy to tell them I couldn't be bothered to care.

Dolores O'Riordan

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The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.

Coretta Scott King

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With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.

Claire Foy

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