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

~Anne Stevenson

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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Complicated Condense Deal Emotions Enjoy Express Great Great Deal Hope Just Language Make Mean Play Poems Possible Real Simple Simply Them Truthful Try I Can

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

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Austen Bach Beethoven Jane Jane Austen Literature Loyal Mozart Music Remain Shakespeare

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

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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 try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Consists Ears Form Had Hard Lot Make Most Musical Natural Poems Possible Quite Rhythm Sound Strict Them Try Trying Very Which Within Work Worked

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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.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Explain Me Meditation Myself Naturally Otherwise Situations Solve Understand Used Very Write I Write

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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 language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

~Anne Stevenson

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My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

~Anne Stevenson

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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 in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Children Cottage Great Live Lucas Married Mountains North Peter Poet Sister Spend Time Usa Vermont Wales Where Who Writer

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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

~Anne Stevenson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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