Helen Vendler Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.

Jennifer Nettles

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You're asking too much of the women. They shouldn't be playing as many events as men. If tennis is best served by women playing events with men, so be it.

John McEnroe

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If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular.

Robert Pinsky

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We need someone who has the experience - and the demeanor - to be the president of the United States.

Robert J. Bentley

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The advancement of coal research will benefit Wyoming, its people, and the coal industry. I fully support it.

Matt Mead

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I'm an in-control person.

Ana Ivanovic

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Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Stephan Jenkins

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Economically Targeted Investing, or ETI, refers to the practice of selecting investments, in part, for their collateral benefits in addition to the investment return for the retirement plan.

Tom Perez

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I like acting very much because I don't get punched, and it's not real.

Marvin Hagler

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I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.

Missy Elliott

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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Louis Kahn

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A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

Don Winslow

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