Blind Quote by Mark Strand

“But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.”

Mark Strand

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To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

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“The ultimate self-effacement is not the pretense of the minimal, but the jocular considerations of the maximal in the manner of Wallace Stevens.”

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I have been eating poetry.

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“Keeping Things Whole" In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is…

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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

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Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

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These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain,…

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

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In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk…

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