Mark Strand's Quotes

Mark Strand's Quotes 14

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile even though...

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry unless of course the life...

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is not to lie but...

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And yet in a culture like ours which is given to material comforts and...

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits limits...

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies but it's clear...

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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of...

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal...

Poetry is something that happens in universities in creative writing...

Poetry is first and last language - the rest is filler.

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally in the end pleasure.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

It's very hard to write humor.

The future is always beginning now.