Anne Stevenson Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Anne Stevenson

  Criticism, Too Much, Kind

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• You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

  Anne Stevenson

  Jobs, Children, Dirty

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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.

  Anne Stevenson

  Marriage, Book, Years

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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.

  Anne Stevenson

  Children, Usa, America

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• 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.

  Anne Stevenson

  Suicide, Sorry, Half

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• 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.

  Anne Stevenson

  Book, Frost, Yeats

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• I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

  Anne Stevenson

  Married, Young, Britain

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• A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts.

  Anne Stevenson

  Hobbies, Tire

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