Anne Stevenson Inspirational Quotes (32)

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 court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

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.

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.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

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

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

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.