Quote by Mark Strand
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course,

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

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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

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

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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. – John Drinkwater

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat. – Robert Frost

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