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Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Mark Strand

Mark Strand

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I have been eating poetry.
— Mark Strand
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When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.
— Mark Strand
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These wrinkles are nothing
These gray hairs are nothing,
This stomach which sags
with old food, these bruised
and swollen ankles,
my darkening brain,
they are nothing.
I am the same boy
my mother used to kiss.
— Mark Strand
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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
— Mark Strand
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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
— Mark Strand
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