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“A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.”

Mark Strand · Poetry

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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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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

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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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Mark Strand

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 personality.

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