"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."
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Helen Bevington
Helen E. Bevington (nΓ©e Smith; 1906 β March 16, 2001) was an American poet, prose writer, and educator.
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