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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
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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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The sea is as near as we come to another world.
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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 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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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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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.
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Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist.
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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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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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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 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.
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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 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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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
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