“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.” TryingMeanI CanRealPlayLanguageEnjoySimpleDealsEmotionComplicatedTruthfulReal Emotion Author:Anne Stevenson
“My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.” PersonsTodayEnjoyLaughingContraryUnhappyConfusionMelancholy Author:Anne Stevenson
