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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 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

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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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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden

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Im not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on Paradise Lost to translate it. – Callan McAuliffe

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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. – Horace, quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern,

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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. – Patrick White

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