Anne Stevenson Quotes

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

- Anne Stevenson

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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. - 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 think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. - Anne Stevenson