Mark Strand Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

  Mark Strand

  Believe, Limits, Language

  Mark Strand (2000). “The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

• ...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

  Mark Strand

  Errors, Self, Language

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.346, Knopf

• Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

  Mark Strand

  Lasts, Firsts, Language

  "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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