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Mark Strand - From the Criticism category:
For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Culture category:
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Destiny category:
Nothing is the destiny of everyone; it is our commonness made dumb. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Expression category:
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)
Mark Strand - From the Form category:
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Future category:
- Reasons for Moving: Poems, Atheneum, 1968...
The future is always beginning now. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Happiness category:
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. / There is no happiness like mine. / I have been eating poetry. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Humour category:
It's very hard to write humor. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Imagination category:
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. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Language category:
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Life category:
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Life category:
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Pleasure category:
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Poetry category:
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 could have predicted. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Time category:
Each moment is a place you've never been. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Tradition category:
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. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Truth category:
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. (Mark Strand)
Mark Strand - From the Writing category:
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose. (Mark Strand)
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