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Quote by Anne Stevenson
Im not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always gr

Im not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every words meaning, or multiple meanings. – 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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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. – Rita Dove

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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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The crown of literature is poetry. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Since I was man,
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