No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.
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.
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,…
Each moment is a place you've never been. - Mark Strand
Each moment is a place you've never been.
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.
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…
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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