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Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?Can anyone die without even a little? — Mark Strand
To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.
— Mark Strand
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
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
— 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
And yet Nothing here is certain;
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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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In a fieldI am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing. — Mark Strand
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry. — Mark Strand
The future is always beginning now.
— Mark Strand
We are reading the story of our livesAs though we were in it
As though we had written it. — Mark Strand
When I walkI part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been. — Mark Strand
What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves. — Mark Strand
I grow into my death. My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all. — Mark Strand
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
— Mark Strand
Each moment is a placeyou've never been. — Mark Strand
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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There is no end to what we can learn. The book out thereTells us as much, and was never written with us in mind. — Mark Strand
I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
— Mark Strand
Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand
Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our timeIs becoming the architecture of the next time. — Mark Strand
It's very hard to write humor.
— Mark Strand
