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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the r

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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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. – 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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True poets are those who have received from God, together with the gift of expression, the power of penetrating further than others into the things of the heart and the life. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. – Dylan Walsh

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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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The older Ive got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. – Reynolds Price

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