Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Helen Vendler

Helen Vendler Quotes

1 Sourced Quote

    • Source
    • Report...
Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

Helen Vendler

Quote of the day

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Helen Vendler

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:
  1. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar (2015)
  2. Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007)
  3. Poets thinking (2004)
  4. Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1984)

WikipediaHelen Vendler on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

American Critic Quotes
Critic Quotes
20th-century Critic Quotes
20th-century Women
Women Critics

Related Authors

Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
American Poet

John Hollander
John Hollander
American Poet

Justin Kaplan
Justin Kaplan
American Editor

Featured Authors

Sun TzuMaximilien RobespierreElvis PresleyAlexander the GreatAndy WarholFranz KafkaAlfred HitchcockGeorge Bernard ShawWoody AllenKarl MarxL. Frank BaumArchimedes

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes