Mark Strand
Mark Strand
Mark Strandwas a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 April 1934
CountryUnited States of America
writing creative program
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
writing want stuff
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
writing thinking people
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
writing attention prove
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
writing numbers people
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.
writing humor hard
It's very hard to write humor.
feelings burial
The burial of feelings has begun.
fate destiny dumb
Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
engagement bores
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
reading government world
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.
time stress fresh-start
Each moment is a place you've never been.
silence shadow sun
When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.
poetry
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
believe limits 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.