Anne Stevenson Quotes

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. - Anne Stevenson

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. - Anne Stevenson

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. - Anne Stevenson

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. - Anne Stevenson

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas. - Anne Stevenson

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. - Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. - 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. - Anne Stevenson

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. - Anne Stevenson

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