Mark Strand Quotes

Best 30+ Mark Strand Messages, Quotes, and Images

The future is always beginning now.

The future is always beginning now.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

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

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

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

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

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

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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