“The cliche is dead poetry.”– Gerald Brenan Related Quotes “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 “Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it’s harder to write. It’s harder to keep the respect of the reader too.”– George Murray “Poetry is, first and last, language – the rest is filler.”– Mark Strand