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Mark Strand Quotes

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Creative Poetry Writing Something

It wasn't easy navigating publicity when I started, because I grew up with 'being famous,' and I'm just not into it, and I guess defensiveness gets read into that. And I didn't get an easy ride at the beginning.

Stella McCartney

Ride Beginning Famous Easy Up Get

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Tommy Lee Jones

Children Boring Always Bored Only

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Failure Struggle Men Seem About

One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress.

Women Power Potential You Cultures

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

Believe Present Goodness Human Us

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.

Fear Thought Doing Down Price Will

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

Journey Fun People Sweet Portrait

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

Salary My Own Difficult Economy Over

PMC's constellation of multi-platform entertainment brands continues to be a leader in entertainment news.

Leader News Entertainment Brands

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

Wisdom Great Time Man Short Here

There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of the Irish nation will ensure the achievement of a Socialist Republic, and this can only be done by hard work and sacrifice.

Work Hard Work Achievement Sacrifice

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Pierre de Fermat

Power Impossible Two Greater Sum

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