What did Mark Strand mean by: We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it. - 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. - Lin Yutang Writer · China
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. - Miguel Angel Ruiz Author · Mexico
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world. - Jean Houston Scholar
