Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.Mark Strand
Each moment is a place you've never been.
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I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
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For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
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I have been eating poetry.
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