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Helen Bevington
7 quotes
“Whenas in perfume Julia went, Then, then, how sweet was the intent Of that inexorable scent.”
Helen Bevington (1906–2001) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Herrick's Julia", in The New Yorker (September 21, 1946), p. 32
“One gender to walk the wide world in Is the feminine, A plight that — softly to a friend — I can recommend.”
Helen Bevington (1906–2001) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Susan at Birth". Nineteen Million Elephants, and Other Poems (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1950), p. 66
“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 (1906–2001) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The House was Quiet and the World was Calm (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), pp. 25–6
“Victor Hugo was a passionate observer, partial to death scenes. He had an appetite for extinction, a man sure to be on hand at the sound of a death rattle or the passing of a funeral procession.”
Helen Bevington (1906–2001) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Along Came the Witch: A Journal in the 1960's (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), p. 201
“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.”
Helen Bevington (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No matter what kind of verse a woman writes, nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.”
Helen Bevington (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.”
Helen Bevington (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source