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• It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

  Mark Strand

  Believe, Shapes, Form

  Mark Strand (2000). “The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

  Mark Strand

  Missing, Fields, Absence

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.79, Knopf

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• A 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.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Thinking, Self, Expression

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• I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

  Mark Strand

  Mainstream Society, America, Culture

  "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

  Mark Strand

  Dictionary

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.397, Knopf

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• The 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.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Numbers, People

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

  Mark Strand

  Testimony, American Poetry

  "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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