All Mark Strand Quotes
- The future is always beginning now. Always Beginning
- And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything… Cannot Name
- A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to… Allows
- Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. Funny
- Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Becomes
- 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… All
- The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. Funny
- Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a… Demand
- From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose. Book
- 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… Actual
- I feel that anything is possible in a poem. Feel
- The burial of feelings has begun. Begun
- I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. Bore
- Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness. Describing
- 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 attention. Accident
- Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb. Commonness
- It's very hard to write humor. Hard
- 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 I… Absence
- 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 decent… Day
- For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better. Better