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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
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Anne Stevenson
Age: 87 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 3
Died: 2020
Died: September 14
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Anne Katharine Stevenson
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A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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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.
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My soul, how will I recognize you if we meet?
Anne Stevenson
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
democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.
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When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
Anne Stevenson
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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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.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
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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.
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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
Anne Stevenson
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
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
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
Anne Stevenson
