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Helen Bevington on Poetry

1906–2001 United States

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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 a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

When Found, Make a Verse of (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Helen Bevington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.