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Life Quotes by Mark Strand
- 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…
- Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
- 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…
- A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
- Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
- 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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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle