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

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

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"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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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."

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"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest."
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"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."
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"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."
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"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written."
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"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."
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