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Mark Strand
7 quotes
“In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keeping Things Whole" (1969)
“A poem releases itself, it does it with cadence.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't know where it comes from. I think some of it comes from the unconscious. Sometimes it is more complete than other times.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the weather, meets the street, meets other people... that shadow land between self and reality.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The elements I need to write are a place, a desk, a familiar room. I need some of my books there, I need quiet. ... I'm picturing as I'm writing. I'm putting together what I need to have this thing alive.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I delay typing as long as possible. When I read a poem in longhand I'm hearing it, when in typescript I'm reading it. A poem can appear finished just because of the cleanness of the typescript.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Full interview with Wallace Shawn”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source