"I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes."
― Mark Strand
Topic(s):
Relationship
More From Mark Strand
- "Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."
- "And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem."
- "Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."
More In Relationship
- "People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole."― Jennifer Connelly
- "If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center."― Tupac Shakur
- "I’ve thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress – the Democrats and Republicans – would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they’d be willing to try."― Bob Dole