Anne Stevenson
Poet
1933-01-03 – 2020-09-14
Anne Stevenson was an American-British poet and writer known for lyric and critical works, including Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. Her poetry and criticism earned major literary recognition over several decades.
Quotes by Anne Stevenson
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Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist.
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Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist.
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Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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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.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
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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.
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