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Anne Stevenson

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

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Amber Hurdle

"I believe in unconditional love... I believe in dangerous unselfishness... I believe in daring to achieve... I believe in making mistakes... I believe in helping others... I believe in moving on... I believe in passionate romance... I believe in living the fullness of this human experience... I believe in ME..."

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"We all have human emotions that rob our lives."

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"Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing."

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"There are not many things that are more powerful than love."

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"Smile because it's infectious.Love because it's contagious."

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"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

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"I am grateful to those who have betrayed me. They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life."

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"Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence."

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Anne Stevenson
"I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were."
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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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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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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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"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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Anne Stevenson
"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
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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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"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 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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Anne Stevenson
"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."
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