Poems, Poets, Poetry Quotes

“Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.”
― Helen Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

“One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.”
― Helen Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”
― Helen Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

“A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.”
― Helen Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology