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Anne Stevenson

"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 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 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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"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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"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."
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"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."
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"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."
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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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"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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