What did Mark Strand mean by: The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. - Mark Strand Poet Copy
+ 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
+ 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
+ For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Mark Strand, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. - Jean Fautrier Painter · France
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
A picture is not a window…an abstract refers to no reality but its own. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities. - Fred Tomaselli
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning. - Frederick Sommer Photographer · USA
Appearance should never attain reality, and if nature conquers, then must art retire. Explain - Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany
