Anne Stevenson Quotes
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The sea is as near as we come to another world.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
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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 family…
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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I…
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I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
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I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked…
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Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and…
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet,…
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I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of…
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for…
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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is…
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
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I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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