Anne Stevenson Quotes
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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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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 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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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 think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.