« All More Quotes · Mark Strand's Page
More Quotes by Mark Strand
- 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…
- 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…
- From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
- 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…
- 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…
- Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come…
More More Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams