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.
Mark StrandWe are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
Mark StrandA poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.
Mark StrandTo open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.
Mark Strand