quotes by Mark Strand
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"Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry."
— Mark Strand (Reasons for Moving)
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry."
— Mark Strand (Reasons for Moving)
"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."
— Mark Strand (Blizzard of One: Poems)
— Mark Strand (Blizzard of One: Poems)
"...In another time,
What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted
To say that language is error, and all things are wronged
By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be
Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one."
— Mark Strand (The Story of Our Lives, with the Monument and the Late Hour)
What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted
To say that language is error, and all things are wronged
By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be
Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one."
— Mark Strand (The Story of Our Lives, with the Monument and the Late Hour)
"The ultimate self-effacement
is not the pretense of the minimal,
but the jocular considerations of the maximal
in the manner of Wallace Stevens."
— Mark Strand
is not the pretense of the minimal,
but the jocular considerations of the maximal
in the manner of Wallace Stevens."
— Mark Strand
