Author: Mark Strand

Quotes

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

- Mark Strand

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

- Mark Strand

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

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

- Mark Strand

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

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

- Mark Strand

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

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

- Mark Strand

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

- Mark Strand

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

- Mark Strand

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

- Mark Strand

It's very hard to write humor.

It's very hard to write humor.

- Mark Strand

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