#mo

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

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#half #her #i #just #knew

In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#brothers #enormously #foot #garden #had

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#essential #feel #i #lot #making

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#chops #down #front #frustrating #gets

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #died #fish #lion #moment

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#careers #coming #during #hardy #hot

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#done #good #good work #includes #motion

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#almost #architect #house #i #jewel