Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
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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.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.
Anne Stevenson
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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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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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
Anne Stevenson
When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
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