Anne Stevenson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Anne Stevenson
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“The sea is as near as we come to another world.”
The sea Quotes
“Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The sea is as near as we come to another world.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“He's great, and I frequently book conferences and meetings at the hotel just because of him, ... Many times, Luke is in the lobby greeting groups; he has a little doghouse there. He's a great addition and definitely a draw.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“After the Fall was written mainly as a joke. It wasn't a personal love poem at all, I was just feeling fed up with housekeeping and children.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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