Mark Strand Quotes

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Mark Strand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 11, 1934 - November 29, 2014

Topics

PoetryRestLanguageFirstLast

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

John C. Maxwell

FailurePeoplePerceptionAchieving

I love Nars blush in Orgasm. I use it on and off camera because it gives you a nice glow from within. My favorite mascara is Diorshow Iconic, and then I love the Make Up For Ever HD Powder. It lets your skin look shiny and fresh, but not greasy-shiny.

Meghan Markle

LoveCameraGlowYouLookSkin

No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

Michael C. Burgess

WarStandLookBe PreparedTerrorism

The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent.

Ronda Rousey

SpaceMeWayMoreOpponentBigger

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

Martin Seligman

MindWrongBeingChanging

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Livy

NatureBondPleasureUnitedNatural

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are. The exercise in theater is night after night, you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore.

Julia Stiles

OpportunityTogetherNightDoingYou

The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.

Joseph P. Bradley

TimeStyleWordsPerfectionSpeech

I'm a workaday writer.

Donald McCaig

Writer

I've always had a really difficult time with loss.

Chris Cornell

TimeLossDifficultAlwaysReally

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

Wislawa Szymborska

MountainLostTopBeingHereGet

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

William Shatner

FoolYourselfYou Can Do ItYouDown

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