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Poetry Quotes by Anne Stevenson
- Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
- A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
- Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
- I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family.…
More Poetry Quotes
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden