Quotes by Mark Strand

Explore a curated collection of 13 quotes by Mark Strand. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. — Mark Strand
These wrinkles are nothingThese gray hairs are nothing,This stomach which sagswith old food, these bruisedand swollen an — Mark Strand
When we walk in the sunour shadows are like barges of silence. — Mark Strand
It came to my house.It sat on my shoulders.Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours.I have carried it wit — Mark Strand
Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our timeIs becoming the architecture of the next time. And the dazzleO — Mark Strand
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what — Mark Strand
The HillI have come this far on my own legs,missing the bus, missing taxis,climbing always. One foot in front of the oth — Mark Strand
There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry. — Mark Strand
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged t — Mark Strand
It's very hard to write humor. — Mark Strand
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. — Mark Strand
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. — Mark Strand
The future is always beginning now. — Mark Strand