"These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are……" — Mark Strand
"These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss."
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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 Ankles Quotes
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one of 160 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it,…
— Chinua Achebe
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I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn…
— Kobe Bryant
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In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I'll add a nice…
— Alessandra Ambrosio
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Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit
— Drake
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
— Al McGuire
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Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour,…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
— Valentino Garavani
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I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.
— Unknown Author
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Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.
— Randall Cobb
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The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in…
— Ozzie Newsome
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It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little…
— Nia Long
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