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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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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand

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Poetry
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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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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. – Taylor Momsen

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. – Rita Dove

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