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Mark Strand Quotes

Mark Strand quotes

American Poet April 11, 1934

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Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imaginedfuture, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love ora passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convincedthat even the smallest particle of the surrounding world wascharged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, andone would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind-loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by thehigh, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, somany and... Mark Strand
She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything. Mark Strand
Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath. Mark Strand
Mark Strand quote: "Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of..."
Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light. Mark Strand
How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It") Mark Strand
Mark Strand quote: "A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of..."
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. Mark Strand
Mark Strand quote: "Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. Mark Strand
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. Mark Strand
Mark Strand quote: "There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry."
There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. 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 poet's personality. Mark Strand
Mark Strand quote: "I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions..."
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. Mark Strand
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one. Mark Strand
These wrinkles are nothing. These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sagswith old food, these bruisedand swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am thei same boymy mother used to kiss. Mark Strand
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. Mark Strand
Mark Strand quote: "Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative..."
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. Mark Strand

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