Mark Strand Quotes

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. - Mark Strand

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. - Mark Strand

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions. - Mark Strand

The future is always beginning now. - Mark Strand

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. - Mark Strand

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. - Mark Strand

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. - Mark Strand

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb. - Mark Strand

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. - Mark Strand

It's very hard to write humor. - Mark Strand

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