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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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Donna Grant

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Donna Grant

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Donna Grant

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The crown of literature is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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Donna Grant

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

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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."

Poetry

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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
"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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Mark Strand
"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."

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Mark Strand
"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."

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

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Mark Strand
"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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Mark Strand
"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."

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