Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
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For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.Mark Strand
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
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