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Anne Stevenson

"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"My heart gladdens, knowing someone think of at Christmas."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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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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Anne Stevenson
"I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were."
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Anne Stevenson
"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
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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."
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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."
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Anne Stevenson
"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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"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."
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Anne Stevenson
"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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Anne Stevenson
"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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