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

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

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. – Mark Strand

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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. – Eugenio Montale

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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesnt play, it has a poignancy to it. – Jim Jarmusch

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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens

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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me its the home of the extraordinary, the only home. – Philip Levine

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