What did Mark Strand mean by: Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. - Mark Strand Poet Copy
+ 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
+ Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Late, Light, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
+ We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Our Lives, Reading, Stories, 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
+ Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, End, Nothingness, 0 - Mark Strand Poet
+ Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, Pain, Pleasure, Poetry, 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
+ 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
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