Dark Harbor Quotes

“So many silent battles are waged
By those who sit alone and wait, and by those who delay.”
― Mark Strand, Dark Harbor

“Thick mist swirled up from the river. Someone,
Who claimed to have known me years before,

Approached, saying there were many poets
Wandering around who wished to be alive again.
They were ready to say the words they had been unable to say—

Words whose absence had been the silence of love,
Of pain, and even of pleasure.
—Mark Strand, from “XLV,” Dark Harbor: A Poem (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994)”
― Mark Strand, Dark Harbor

“I believe
That someone is already there and is waiting
For the pale appearance of another.”
― Mark Strand, Dark Harbor