Quote of the day
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must feel all the emotions that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humor will stimulate a like mood in the listener.
Helen Vendler

Born: April 30, 1933
Died: April 23, 2024 (aged 90)
Bio: Helen Hennessy Vendler was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities.
Known for:
- The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar (2015)
- Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007)
- Poets thinking (2004)
- Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1984)







