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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

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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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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties. – Anne Stevenson

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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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A poet can survive anything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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