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I have been eating poetry.

Mark Strand

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Mark Strand
Age: 80 †
Born: 1934
Born: April 11
Died: 2014
Died: November 29
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I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
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I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.
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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
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Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
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These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.
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We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
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Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
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To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.
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Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.
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If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.
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Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
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In a field I am the absence of field.That 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 space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
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When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.
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I don't really think it will make much difference to me when I'm dead whether I'm read or not . . . just as whether I'm dead or not won't mean much to me when I'm dead.
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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 to pay attention.
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