Quotes about Anne Stevenson

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve...

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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of...

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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and...

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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I...

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I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every...

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I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to...

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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I...

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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 dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that...

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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself...

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