Mark Strand Quotes

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• No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was…
• ...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are…
• When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.
• Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.
• We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
• How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the…
• Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars…
• Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
• We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
• These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they…
• It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have…
• Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or…
• In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.
• She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house,…
• Nobody knows you. You are the neighbor of nothing.

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