What did Mark Strand mean by: For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better. - Mark Strand Poet Copy
+ In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Absence, Missing, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
+ Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Destiny, Dumb, Fate, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
+ The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Reality, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
+ I tend to like poems that engage me – that is to say, which do not bore me. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Boring, Engagement, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
+ When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Shadow, Silence, Sun, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
+ When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Air, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
+ I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Testimony, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
+ Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Attention, Prove, Writing, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
