Helen Bevington Quotes

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I always return to Paris, taking my selves along — past self, customary self, the self I never had.

Helen Bevington

Nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

Helen Bevington

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

Helen Bevington

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 Bevington

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.

Helen Bevington

Helen Bevington

Helen Bevington

Born: 1906

Died: 2001 (aged 95)

Bio: Helen Smith Bevington was an American poet, prose author, and educator. Her most noted book, Charley Smith's Girl, was a runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize and it was "banned by the library in the small town of Worcester, N.Y.

Known for:

The world and the bo tree (1991)
The third and only way (1996)
Beautiful Lofty People (1974)

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