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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to my

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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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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Science
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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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Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. – Jean Giraudoux

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Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be. – Proverb

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Marriage

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. – James McGreevey

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Marriage

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990s. – Chris Clark

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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. – Olof Palme

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You were a lord if you had a horse…
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. . . . The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as Gods children. – Phillips Brooks

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