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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

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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. ↗

— Mark Strand

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

— Mark Strand

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

— Mark Strand

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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. ↗

— Mark Strand

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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. ↗

— Mark Strand

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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

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I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. ↗

— John Cleveland

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