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Mark Strand quotes: Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway? Can anyone die without even a little?

Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?
Can anyone die without even a little?

Mark Strand quotes: Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

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

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

Mark Strand quotes: Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Mark Strand quotes: This is the mirrorin which pain is asleepthis is the countrynobody visits

This is the mirror
in which pain is asleep
this is the country
nobody visits

Mark Strand quotes: I haven't met God and I haven't been to heaven, so I'm skeptical,

I haven't met God and I haven't been to heaven, so I'm skeptical,

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

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 quotes: We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

Mark Strand quotes: Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Mark Strand quotes: I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

Mark Strand quotes: Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same. I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

Time tells me what I am.
I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

Mark Strand quotes: Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

Mark Strand quotes: A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

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

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 quotes: And yet Nothing here is certain;

And yet Nothing here is certain;

Mark Strand quotes: Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Mark Strand quotes: In a fieldI am the absenceof field.This isalways the case.Wherever I amI am what is missing.

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

Mark Strand quotes: 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 decent world.

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 decent world.

Mark Strand quotes: From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

Mark Strand quotes: Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.

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

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

Mark Strand quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The future is always beginning now.

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Strand quotes: When we walk in the sunour shadows are like barges of silence.

When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.

Mark Strand quotes: We are reading the story of our livesAs though we were in itAs though we had written it.

We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it.

Mark Strand quotes: I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Mark Strand quotes: When I walkI part the airand alwaysthe air moves into fill the spaceswhere my body's been.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

Mark Strand quotes: The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

Mark Strand quotes: Even this late it happens:the coming of love, the coming of light.

Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.

Mark Strand quotes: For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

Mark Strand quotes: What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort
Of being strangers, at least to ourselves.

Mark Strand quotes: I grow into my death. My life is small and getting smaller. The world is green. Nothing is all.

I grow into my death.
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all.

Mark Strand quotes: The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

Mark Strand quotes: Each moment is a placeyou've never been.

Each moment is a place
you've never been.

Mark Strand quotes: I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

Mark Strand quotes: Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Mark Strand quotes: There is no end to what we can learn. The book out thereTells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.

There is no end to what we can learn. The book out there
Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.

Mark Strand quotes: I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Mark Strand quotes: Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,And what is invisible stays that way.

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way.

Mark Strand quotes: Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Mark Strand quotes: Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our timeIs becoming the architecture of the next time.

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time
Is becoming the architecture of the next time.

Mark Strand quotes: It's very hard to write humor.

It's very hard to write humor.

Mark Strand quotes: And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.