Quote by Anne Stevenson
I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as i

I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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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. – Anne Stevenson

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Marriage
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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I dont ignore feelings and emotions. – Anne Stevenson

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Hope
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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

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Poetry
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting Hiawatha and they groan. – Erica Jong

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Poetry

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Poetry

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Poetry

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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. – Peter Abelard

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. – Sophocles

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We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children. – Iain Duncan Smith

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Reason is the wise mans guide, example the fools. – Proverb

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