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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writ

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. – 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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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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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out…. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. – A.E. Housman

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

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