"Poetry is, first and last, language - the…" — Mark Strand
"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."
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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 Filler Quotes
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I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work.…
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve…
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We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of…
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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
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You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.
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Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that…
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We got to his place and it looked a lot like his personality. Just a bunch of space filler, nothing…
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