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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.
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More Anne Stevenson sayings
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings -...Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so...Each word bears its weight, so you have to read...I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't...I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has...I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on...I have always made my own rules, in poetry as...I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form...I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and...I play with language a great deal in my poems,...I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in...I think a poet, like a painter, should be a...I work very hard on all my poems, but most...I write, or used to write, to explain to myself...I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my...
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