"Sometimes he did not know if he slept……" — Mark Strand
"Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep."
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Mark Strand
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55 Quotes by Mark Strand
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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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