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Mark Strand Quotes

American - Poet | April 11, 1934 - November 29, 2014

The future is always beginning now.

Future Beginning Now Always

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

Yourself Writing You Want Point

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

Destiny Dumb Nothing Everyone Made

It's very hard to write humor.

Humor Write Hard Very

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

Believe Out Point Shape Us Seems

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Poetry American Say Personal Always

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Poetry Limits Believe Language

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

Truth Beautiful I Am Concerned Nor

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

Curious Me Think Blind Never Rather

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Great Poetry People Writing Think

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Moment You Place Never Been Each

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Life Poetry Poem Turned

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