I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
Anne Stevenson
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More quotes by Anne Stevenson
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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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