When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the … - Helen Vendler

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But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell. " Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask 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.

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You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

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Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

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One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

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The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

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The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

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The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and it's not a model that can necessarily be sustained. Now, if they go back to making movies about people. . . well, I hope they do that.

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But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell. " Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

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Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

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