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Poetry Quotes by Mark Strand
- A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to…
- Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
- Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
- 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…
- I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
- If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent…
- 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…
- A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
- 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…
- I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
- Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
- Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
- 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…
- I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part…
- I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's…
- Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
- Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come…
- Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
More Poetry Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood