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... →
Anne Stevenson
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that... →
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... →
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
J. Michael Straczynski
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's... →
Mark Strand
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.