Quotes About Mark strand

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

If a man publicly denounces poetry,His shoes will fill with urine.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

The ultimate self-effacement is not the pretense of the minimal, but the jocular considerations of the maximal in the manner of Wallace Stevens.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

For Mark Strand, the poet's responsibility to be a witness, a recorder of experience, is part of the broader responsibility we all have for keeping the universe ordered through our consciousness: