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Mark Strand

"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

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Donna Grant

"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."

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Donna Grant

"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."

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Donna Grant

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

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Donna Grant

"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

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Donna Grant

"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

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Donna Grant

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."

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Donna Grant

"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

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Donna Grant

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

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Donna Grant

"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

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Donna Grant

"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."

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Mark Strand
"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."

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Mark Strand
"The future is always beginning now."

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Mark Strand
"The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions."

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Mark Strand
"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."

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Mark Strand
"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."

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Mark Strand
"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."

Life

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Mark Strand
"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."

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Mark Strand
"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."

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Mark Strand
"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."

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Mark Strand
"It's very hard to write humor."

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