"Once you start describing nothingness, you end up……" — Mark Strand
"Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness."
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55 Quotes by Mark Strand
Mark Strand has 55 quotes on this site.
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The future is always beginning now.
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And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her…
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A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to…
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition…
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The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
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Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is…
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in…
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I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
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The burial of feelings has begun.
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More Describing Quotes
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke…
— Margaret Atwood
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture…
— Anita Baker
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
— James A. Baldwin
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight…
— Steven Biko
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I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion,…
— Conrad Black
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so…
— Niels Bohr
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Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
— Robert Bork
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing…
— Julie Burchill
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I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things,…
— Nick Cave
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Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is…
— Diablo Cody
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Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of…
— Roger Penrose
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