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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comfor

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. – Mark Strand

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

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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poets personality. – Mark Strand

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Poetry is not always words. – Terri Guillemets, “Moonglow over the mountain,” 1991

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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witchs brew. – Anthony Hecht

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On the other hand, if theres an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. Ive lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. – Richard Serra

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Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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