| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bd9ae74 | One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways. | poets | Helen Vendler | |
| e16425f | Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it. | poets | Helen Vendler | |
| 2d26eff | Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added. | Helen Vendler | ||
| c20a981 | A poem needs as well as of content. | Helen Vendler | ||
| 14c0baa | The war in the poem between the warmth of Keatsian language and the chill of metaphysical analysis means that Stevens has not achieved a style that can embrace both the physical pine and the metaphysical pine. | Helen Vendler |