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

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

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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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Hope
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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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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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Poetry
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant,—the most frivolous of all things, or the most important. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Poetry

Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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