Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
Anne Stevenson
The sea is as near as we come to another world.
world sea
He's great, and I frequently book conferences and meetings at the hotel just because of him,.. Many times, Luke is in the lobby greeting groups; he has a little doghouse there. He's a great addition and definitely a draw.
book times great meetings
deep
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.
poetry survival suicide hope
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 without order or pattern poetry is useless.
poetry rules life order family
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 always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
poetry life art language
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 science, it is an aid to art.
literature help art science
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.
thetimes time
When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
fun
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
emotions language
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
work
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
sound work
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
literature music
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
emotions mind
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.
poetry marriage
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