Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I dont ignore feelings and emotions. – Anne Stevenson
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
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. – Frantz Fanon