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The future is always beginning now  (Mark Strand Quotes) Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler  (Mark Strand Quotes) If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we’d live in a much more humane and decent world.  (Mark Strand Quotes) We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.  (Mark Strand Quotes) Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.  (Mark Strand Quotes) There’s a certain point, when you’re writing autobiographical stuff, where you don’t want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.  (Mark Strand Quotes) I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet’s personality.  (Mark Strand Quotes) 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  (Mark Strand Quotes) Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments  (Mark Strand Quotes) I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony  (Mark Strand Quotes) I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet’s personality  (Mark Strand Quotes) I certainly can’t speak for all cultures or all societies, but it’s clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It’s not part of the cultural mainstream  (Mark Strand Quotes) I feel that anything is possible in a poem  (Mark Strand Quotes) Each moment is a place you've never been  (Mark Strand Quotes) Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure  (Mark Strand Quotes) Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented  (Mark Strand Quotes) For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better  (Mark Strand Quotes) From the reader’s view, a poem is more demanding than prose  (Mark Strand Quotes) I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful  (Mark Strand Quotes) Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention  (Mark Strand Quotes) Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness  (Mark Strand Quotes) The burial of feelings has begun  (Mark Strand Quotes) Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep  (Mark Strand Quotes) It’s very hard to write humor  (Mark Strand Quotes) Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb  (Mark Strand Quotes) Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light  (Mark Strand Quotes) We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole  (Mark Strand Quotes) If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we’d live in a much more humane and decent world  (Mark Strand Quotes) A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be  (Mark Strand Quotes) A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art  (Mark Strand Quotes)
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