Helen Vendler Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.

Jimmy Swaggart

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Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Jim Rohn

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My life would be better without Gristedes.

John Catsimatidis

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The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

Andrew Cuomo

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Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

John Pople

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When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

Amy Chua

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The ranking never lies.

Stan Wawrinka

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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Robert Baden-Powell

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I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself.

Judith Light

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I always think stand-up is the most brutal environment for a comedian.

Dominic Holland

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People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

Dennis Kucinich

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My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

Chubby Checker

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