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From Quotes by Mark Strand
- From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
- 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…
- Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
- No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was…
- How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the…
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