Quote by Mark Strand
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. - Mark Strand

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. – 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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Poetry
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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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. – Vicente Aleixandre

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I write poetry in order to live more fully. – Judith Rodriguez

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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. – Robert Fitzgerald

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