#is

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#been #candidate #me #platform #republicans

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#expectations #live #revolution #rising

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#commercial #exalted #fire #inspiring #irresistible

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. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#art #criticism #dislike #function #help

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#cambridge #englishman #every #i #lived

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

#ears #form #had #hard #i

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. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#cottage #great #i #live #lucas

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#could #criticism #far #i #kind

Everything contains its antithesis. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#contains #everything

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#artist #could #gogh #i #if i could