Mark Strand's Quote - Poetry is, first and last, language – the rest is filler. – Mark S

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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. - Mark S

Poetry is, first and last, language – the rest is filler. – Mark Strand

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Its very hard to write humor. – 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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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. – Mark Strand

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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. – Diane Wakoski

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. – Stephen Mallarme

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Poetic talent doesnt operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. – Wislawa Szymborska

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