Life And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. - Mark Strand
Poetry 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
Truth I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. - Mark Strand
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. - Norman Borlaug
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. - Gerald R. Ford
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal. - William Ames
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. - John F. Kennedy