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
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. – Anne Stevenson
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I dont ignore feelings and emotions. – Anne Stevenson
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties. – Anne Stevenson
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor – they have children that they dont want or they cannot feed. – Isabel Allende