"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."

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Source : Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

Mark Strand

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“People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.”
“Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.”
“We can't change the past, but we can look to the future, and we can - we can hold ourselves accountable, to our - not just to our - our children but to all aspects of the - the world we interact with”

Source : "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. July 29, 2012.
“You need to make the music strong, and the philosophy behind the music has to be solid. What the music exudes, what it emits, has to be very strong. It's your thinking that brings you things in life. Part of my philosophy to exceed starts right there.”
“I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.”
“Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.”
“Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.”
“Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings”

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