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

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Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.

Helen Vendler

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

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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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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.

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Success is just hanging out with my kids. I mean, I always say if you have options, you're rich. To me, success is the fact that hey, I just did a movie and maybe I'll do some stand up, maybe I'll will write a book or maybe I will do a play.

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It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

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