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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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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 did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the...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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