Anne Stevenson , American poet

said about Work, Poems, Sound, Trying...

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"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."
- Anne Stevenson

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