Anne Stevenson's Quote - Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slo

Quote by Anne Stevenson

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slo

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson

Other quotes by Anne Stevenson

Im not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every words meaning, or multiple meanings. – Anne Stevenson

Category:

Author

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. – Anne Stevenson

Category:

Author

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

Category:

Author

Other Quotes from

Poetry

category

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong

Category:

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. – Laura Riding

Category:

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

Category:

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. – Marilyn Hacker

Category:

Random Quotes

When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters. – George Savile

Category:

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. – Marguerite de Valois

Category:

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves. – Julian Castro

Category:

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on. – Thomas Hardy

Category: