Mark Strand

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been…

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

The future is always beginning now…

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented…

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry…

I certainly can’t speak for all cultures or all societies, but it’s clear that in…

Poetry is, first and last, language – the rest is filler…

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure…

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

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted…

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to…

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that…

It’s very hard to write humor…

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays…