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Been Quotes 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 attention.
- 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…
- A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
- I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
- I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical,
- Each moment is a place you've never been.
- Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
- When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.
- 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…
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