Bevington Quotes & Sayings

In the most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, comfortable. — Susan Sontag

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

Nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess. — Helen Bevington

corrected in text: Page 18: undertand replaced with understand — Andrew Murray

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

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says. — Ken Livingstone

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

I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind. — 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

Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart. — Helen Bevington

Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deities
And you will be able to compose your own tune.
Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,
Singing 'tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum. — Hongzhi Zhengjue

Even Azathoth is bored of this tune. — Christy Leigh Stewart

Understanding myself should not be confused with changing myself — Milton Bevington