Mark Strand quotes - page 3

A poem releases itself, it does it with cadence. (Mark Strand)
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. View quote
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How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It") View quote
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I have been eating poetry. View quote
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I don't really think it will make much difference to me when I'm dead whether I'm read or not . . . just as whether I'm dead or not won't mean much to me when I'm dead. View quote
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...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. View quote
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To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing. View quote
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