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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. — Oscar Wilde
- For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. — Anne Stevenson
- I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson
- There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson