"Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."
-Mark Strand
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"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."
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"The future is always beginning now."
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"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."
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"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."
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"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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"Humor is reason gone mad."
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"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."
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"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
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"The secret to humor is surprise."
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"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."
-Langston Hughes
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