Mark Strand Messages
Best 30+ Mark Strand Messages, Quotes, and Images
When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.
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.
The burial of feelings has begun.
I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
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Let's keep our chins up and our knees down - we're on the victory side.
There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to learn from them and move on.
I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.
For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.