"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is……" — Mark Strand
"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."
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55 Quotes by Mark Strand
Mark Strand has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to…
- 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…
- The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
- Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is…
- 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…
- I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
- The burial of feelings has begun.
More Commonness Quotes
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