Mark Strand Quotes
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
Quotes to Explore
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Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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I believe in collaboration and cooperation.
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I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.
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America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.
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I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.
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What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.
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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
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No Albert - it's not God - it's Michael. My lover. You vowed you would kill him - and you did. And you vowed you would eat him. Now eat him.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
