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

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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. – Mark Strand

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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. – Simon Armitage

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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Ive been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. – Ed Westwick

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Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldnt call myself a poet. – David Duchovny

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