"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."

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

Mark Strand

#Art Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Made Quotes

“Romance is when after two people have gone through thick and thin together, and have confirmed to become a love that will never change no matter what happens.”
“I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.”
“I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.”
“There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.”

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“Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.”
“Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”
“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.”

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