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Author: Mark Strand
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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.
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Mark Strand
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
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Mark Strand
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
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Mark Strand
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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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.
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Mark Strand
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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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.
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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.
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Mark Strand
It's very hard to write humor.
It's very hard to write humor.
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Mark Strand
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