I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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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.Anne Stevenson
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
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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 don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
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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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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
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