Mark Strand Quotes

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PainPoetryEndPleasureIn The End

I really believe what people have said before, that God is love. For me, it's music. For you, it might be writing, or for somebody else, it might be soccer or whatever.

Jim James

LoveMusicGodPeopleMeWriting

If you wake up whenever you want, and you slept for 10 hours, and you're lazy getting out of bed, then I believe that affects your whole life in a negative way.

Jocko Willink

LifeWake UpBelieveNegativeYou

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

Jessica Barth

GoalCreateFameWantLivingTell

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

Andrew Dominik

MotherRebelChoiceMoviesCrime

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

Tom Jones

PeopleMeVoiceLongI CanWant

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

TodayTomorrowRealityFeelYou

I'm an honest dude, not trying to be anything other than who I am.

Luke Combs

I AmTryingAnythingHonestDudeAm

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

Juan Williams

TruthI AmPeopleMeAirplaneWorry

Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.

Craig Brown

TrustPeopleLookingEyeHandshake

But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do.

Connie Chung

RespectBestHappyMeThinkYou

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

Auberon Herbert

PersonTaxImmoralEveryTakenRate

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

Paul Theroux

LifeLiveMyselfJobHappyBe Happy

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