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Mark Strand Quotes: The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
         

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.


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