Mark Strand Quotes

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

Mark Strand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

Joe Sakic

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It's a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work.

John Gurdon

WorkYouFindGoSayWay

Stoutly pro-tax-cut and libertarian on social issues like abortion, Trump is a Republican with the business know-how to turn the country's economy around.

Roger Stone

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What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.

Loni Love

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Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

Juice Newton

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But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

Christopher Nolan

DreamsMindWorldYouDreamCreate

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

Chris Ware

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I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

Britt Ekland

BeautifulChildrenParentsCityStop

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

Arija Bareikis

PathPurposePeopleThinkEndDoing

Each production is its own experience.

Todd Haynes

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Honestly, I'm not a big fan of baseball.

Novak Djokovic

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Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

Richard Reeves

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