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Quotes from When Found, Make a Verse of — Helen Bevington

1906–2001 United States

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No matter what kind of verse a woman writes, nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

When Found, Make a Verse of (1961)

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.