"A poem is a place where the conditions……" — 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 be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves."
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Mark Strand
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55 Quotes by Mark Strand
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The future is always beginning now.
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And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her…
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition…
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The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
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Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is…
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in…
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I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
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The burial of feelings has begun.
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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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