Anne Stevenson
Anne Stevenson
Anne Stevensonis an American-British poet and writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
eye intuition judgment
There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.
suicide sorry half
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
bird blackbirds farms
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
soul ifs my-soul
My soul, how will I recognize you if we meet?
art science criticism
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.
marriage book years
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.
friends art shy
I'm 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 word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
book frost yeats
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
children usa america
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
friends no-friends known
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
thinking poetry feelings
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
ocean sea world
The sea is as near as we come to another world.
poetry bears weight
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
real mean simple
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.