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“Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.”

Mark Strand · Poetry

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

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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 surprising that so much poetry is written.

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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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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

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