Literature not only allows but encourages the interpenetration of the senses, the imagination, and the intellect — the “whole person,” as we might say — in a way that our everyday texts (the advertisement, the obituary, the brochure from the computer company) do not. This integration of all the faculties of human nature at once, presented in a poem, becomes, as we internalize the poem, an integration of ourselves within ourselves.
— Helen Vendler in “Author’s Notes for Teaching Poems, Poets, Poetry“
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