Author: Deutsch, Babette (1895-1982). American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.
Title: Autograph Quotation Signed by the American Poet & Novelist Babette Deutsch.
Description: New York, April 7, 1964. 1964. - A 29 word quotation penned on 3-3/8 inch high by 5-3/8 inch wide card stock. ".. a truly sufficing poem, uttered from the height or from the depth of human speech, would be to the region we inhabit what the universe might be to God". Signed "Babette Deutsch". The card is identified on the verso in an unknown hand as "Babette Deutsch, poet / N.Y. 7.IV.1964". Near fine.

The American poet, critic, translator and novelist Babette Deutsch (1895-1982) published poems in "The North American Review" and the "New Republic" when still a student at Barnard College. She married the writer and translator Avraham Yarmolinsky, chief of the Slavonic Division of The New York Public Library. From the 1940s through the 60s, Deutsch taught at Columbia University influencing students such as the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. She translated Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and the poems of Boris Pasternack among others. Marianne Moore wrote that Deutsch's poems displayed "her commanding stature as a poet". Fine .

Keywords: LITERATURE; POET; NOVELIST; TRANSLATOR; CRITIC; POETRY; BABETTE DEUTSCH; AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED; SIGNATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; A TRULY SUFFICING POEM, UTTERED FROM THE HEIGHT AND THE DEPTH OF HUMAN SPEECH.

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