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Mark Strand
Mark Strand
American Poet
Born: Apr 11, 1934
Died: Nov 29, 2014
Life Poem Poetry Think Writing You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
The future is always beginning now. Mark Strand
Future Beginning Always Now
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. Mark Strand
Me Say Bore Poems Tend Like Which Engage
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. Mark Strand
You Yourself Writing Would Would-Be Point Stuff Autobiographical Where Want Dishonest Certain Certain Point
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. Mark Strand
Creative Writing Programs Something Poetry Departments Happens English Creative Writing Universities
It's very hard to write humor. Mark Strand
Humor Write Very Hard
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. Mark Strand
Say Would Poetry Always Testimony Been American Personal
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. Mark Strand
Beautiful Truth Concerned Am Nor Conventional Notions
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. Mark Strand
Me Think Responsive Rather Tend Never Part Blind Self-Serving Curious Expressive Tedious
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. Mark Strand
Life Located Poems More Facts Journalistic Robert Course His Actual
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. Mark Strand
Life Art Made Unless Has-Been Poetry Course Been Elevated Sufficiently

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