Canvas Quote by Anne Stevenson Download Open image “I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.” — Anne Stevenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Canvas Poetry Slap Violent
I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas,… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where,… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
