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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: About Defined Feelings Human Might Poem Thinking

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Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Architect Bother Buildings Ever Find Had Heard Never Out Pianist Practice Stand Stand Up Up Who Why You

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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, and the American, Robert Frost.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Always American Been Blake Books Favorite Frost Influenced Lyrics Me More Much Poet Prophetic Robert Suppose Young

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Bears Each Poems Quite Read Slowly Weight Word You

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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.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Am Century Come Glad Horrors Live Now Rather Really See Seventy I Am 21St Century

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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 six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Book Complexities Did Ended Explain Hughes Know Marriage Myself Others Partly Poetry Productive Six Ted Then Tragedy Wonderfully Wrote Years

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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 not a science, it is an aid to art.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Aid Art Criticism Dislike Function Help Jargon Literary Literature Never Only Read Readers Science Understand Use

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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Canvas Just Like Poetry Violent Were Words

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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Always Believe Cooperate Family However Late Life Made More My Own Order Own Pattern Poetry Rules Though Tried Useless Without

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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.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Because Form Gives Having Ideas Like Me Memorable Original Original Ideas Pattern Rhyme Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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