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

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Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.

Helen Vendler

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

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

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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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I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

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