Helen Bevington quotes
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“I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross over and arrive on the safe side. There you would drink the strong waters and become addicted, perhaps demented - but a Reader.”
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“I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.”
-- Helen BevingtonSource : Helen Bevington (1988). “The Journey Is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies”, p.91, Duke University Press
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“nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.”
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“poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.”
-- Helen BevingtonSource : Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”
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“The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.”
-- Helen BevingtonSource : Helen Smith Bevington (1971). “The house was quiet and the world was calm”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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“being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.”
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“I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.”
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“It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.”
-- Helen BevingtonSource : Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”
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