I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.Anne Stevenson
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
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Anne Stevenson
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
Anne Stevenson
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
Anne Stevenson
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.
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