Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.
Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness. - Mark Strand
Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.
- Mark Strand
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
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.
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention. - Mark Strand
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
Each moment is a place you've never been. - Mark Strand
Each moment is a place you've never been.
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 in… - 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 in…
These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain,… - Mark Strand
These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain,…
Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never… - Mark Strand
Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never…
I feel that anything is possible in a poem. - Mark Strand
I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
The future is always beginning now. - Mark Strand
The future is always beginning now.
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