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> [To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/to-open-the-dictionary-of-the-beyond-and-discover-what-one-suspected/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

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## More by Mark Strand

> [We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/we-re-only-here-for-a-short-while-and-i-think-it-s-such-a-lucky/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/if-every-head-of-state-and-every-government-official-spent-an-hour-a/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/to-open-the-dictionary-of-the-beyond-and-discover-what-one-suspected/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/i-think-the-best-american-poetry-is-the-poetry-that-utilizes-the/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [“The ultimate self-effacement is not the pretense of the minimal, but the jocular considerations of the maximal in the manner of Wallace Stevens.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/the-ultimate-self-effacement-is-not-the-pretense-of-the-minimal-but/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [I have been eating poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/i-have-been-eating-poetry/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [“Keeping Things Whole" In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/keeping-things-whole-in-a-field-i-am-the-absence-of-field-this-is/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/there-s-a-certain-point-when-you-re-writing-autobiographical-stuff/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/poetry-is-about-slowing-down-you-sit-and-you-read-something-you-read/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/these-wrinkles-are-nothing-these-gray-hairs-are-nothing-this-stomach/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/pain-is-filtered-in-a-poem-so-that-it-becomes-finally-in-the-end/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/in-a-field-i-am-the-absence-of-field-that-is-always-the-case-wherever/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/even-this-late-it-happens-the-coming-of-love-the-coming-of-light-you/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/those-hours-given-over-to-basking-in-the-glow-of-an-imagined-future/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

> [I feel that anything is possible in a poem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/i-feel-that-anything-is-possible-in-a-poem/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

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