America Quote by Mark Strand

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay…

— Mark Strand

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and…

— Mark Strand

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

— Mark Strand

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

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

— Mark Strand

I have been eating poetry.

— Mark Strand

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

— Mark Strand

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

— Mark Strand

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

— 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,…

— Mark Strand

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

— Mark Strand

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…

— Mark Strand