Commonness Quotes by Mark Strand

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Mark Strand has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
• She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There…
• The future is always beginning now.
• And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes…
• A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what…
• Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
• Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
• I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits…

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