Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it. - Helen Vendler - Quotesmemo.com

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Small acts can drive reforms. What appears minor can actually be vital and fundamental. Generating 20,000 MW of power attracts a lot of attention. That is important. At the same time, 20,000 MW of power can be saved through a people's movement for energy efficiency. The second is more difficult but is as important as the first. Small indeed, is beautiful.

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Helen Vendler

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

Asks, Leads, Make Sense, Poem, Questions, Sense

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

Giving, Names, Poetry, Primitive, Unaccomplished

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