"I don’t like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were." ― Anne Stevenson Topic(s): Poetry More From Anne Stevenson "Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry." "A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties." "Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly." More In Poetry "Pound’s translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."― Robert Morgan "Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."― John Keats "Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation."― Ronnie James Dio