Mark Strand's Profile
Brief about Mark Strand: By info that we know Mark Strand was born at 1934-04-11. And also Mark Strand is American Poet.
Some Mark Strand's quotes. Goto "Mark Strand's quotation" section for more.Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Tags: End, Pain, PoetryA 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.
Tags: Great, Poetry, WritingA life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Tags: Art, Life, PoetryAnd at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
Tags: Free, Lie, PoetryBut I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
Tags: Blind, Curious, RatherI am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
Tags: Beautiful, Nor, TruthI tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Tags: Bore, Engage, PoemsI would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
Tags: American, Personal, PoetryPoetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Tags: Creative, Poetry, WritingThe 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.
Tags: Number, Reasons, WritingRelated topics
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