I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
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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
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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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.
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