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)

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

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