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 s…

- Anne Stevenson

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

- Anne Stevenson

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

- Anne Stevenson

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

- Anne Stevenson

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

- Anne Stevenson

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

- Anne Stevenson

You sleep with a dream of summer weather, wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain. Nothing out there but drop-heavy feathers of grass and rainy…

- Anne Stevenson

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

- Anne Stevenson

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

- Anne Stevenson