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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
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Anne Stevenson
Age: 87 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 3
Died: 2020
Died: September 14
Literary Critic
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Anne Katharine Stevenson
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There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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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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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.
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Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
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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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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 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.
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My soul, how will I recognize you if we meet?
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts.
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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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The sea is as near as we come to another world.
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There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
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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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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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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
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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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When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
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