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Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?
Can anyone die without even a little? — Mark Strand
Can anyone die without even a little? — Mark Strand
Each person is a strand of story.
— Neil Gaiman
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
— Paul Strand
Photography ... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)
— Paul Strand
I will never stop being pissed. He has now created a 'lifetime of seeking vengeance' scenario.
— Jeff Strand
To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.
— Mark Strand
He didn't seem like somebody you'd want to invite to a party unless you'd already given up on it.
— Jeff Strand
I won't say the pain was indescribable, since there are plenty of good descriptive words: excruciating, agonizing, unbearable, and so on.
— Jeff Strand
When you write, you are telling a story ... to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself ... over and over again.
— Kai Strand
Sometimes getting information from him was like unraveling a carpet one strand at a time.
— Sabrina Jeffries
Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
— Paul Strand
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
— Walter Scott
Arisaid. A night breeze brushed a strand of hair across my face.
— Diana Gabaldon
You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.
— Craig Venter
Hazen had already begun to mix her a martini. She watched approvingly. "Martinis make everything worthwhile, don't they?" she said, smiling at Strand.
— Irwin Shaw
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
— Ashwin Sanghi
I had no idea what was going on, but I knew that fighting Tybalt wouldn't get me out of the darkness. It would strand me there.
— Seanan McGuire
I fell asleep right away. It was a deep sleep, the kind I used to enjoy in study hall.
— Jeff Strand
The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.
— Michael Palin
Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand
And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand
Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time
Is becoming the architecture of the next time. — Mark Strand
Is becoming the architecture of the next time. — Mark Strand
Ah, to that far distant strand
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way. — Friedrich Schiller
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way. — Friedrich Schiller
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.
— Paul Strand
All good art is abstract in its structure.
— Paul Strand
As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm.
— Virginia Woolf
Time tells me what I am.
I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains. — Mark Strand
I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains. — Mark Strand
A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush
— Spike Milligan
Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider's web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning. — E.B. White
In spider's web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning. — E.B. White
Is someone in my tree?" I fought panic, and through Herculean effort managed to keep my pants dry. "No," I answered. She wasn't fooled.
— Jeff Strand
Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.
— Stephen R. Covey
On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,
My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
— Mark Strand
Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism.
— Dean Acheson
How about we meet tomorrow at Von's Gym, 6 A.M.?" I'd heard rumors that such an hour of the morning existed, but thus far it had been unconfirmed.
— Jeff Strand
Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.
— Chris Galford
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
— Mark Strand
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
— Mark Strand
The braid is always stronger than the strand.
— Ryan Graudin
Each moment is a place
you've never been. — Mark Strand
you've never been. — Mark Strand
Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice.
— Jeff Strand
But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.
— Nicholas Sparks
Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
— Paul Strand
tamed his blond hair by cropping it short, but a rebellious sun-streaked strand curls over one tawny brow. Tall, broad-shouldered,
— Magda Alexander
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
— Mark Strand
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been. — Mark Strand
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been. — Mark Strand
The mustard lined his lips. At one point a strand of sauerkraut was smeared against his chin.
— Paul Zindel
We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it. — Mark Strand
As though we were in it
As though we had written it. — Mark Strand
Why does the thin grey strand
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me? — D.H. Lawrence
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me? — D.H. Lawrence
A strong strand throughout the Bible stresses that you are to GIVE to needs and put LIMITS on sin. Boundaries help you do just that.
— Henry Cloud
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn't destroyed them.
— Paul Strand
All light is available light.
— Paul Strand
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
— William Morris
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.
— Mark Strand
Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like
mercury then gathered up only at the last moment. — Jeanette Winterson
mercury then gathered up only at the last moment. — Jeanette Winterson
Her mother walk all the way back to their car, hand in hand, like two jewels on a delicate strand that might at any moment be broken.
— Jodi Picoult
God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.
— Jay Parini
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
— Winston Churchill
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
— Paul Strand
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
— Deborah Moggach
It's very hard to write humor.
— Mark Strand
But being hit in the face with monkey poo is something that, deep inside, we all believe happens only to other people.
— Jeff Strand
I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring.
— Ivan Doig
Like all beings, I will eventually add my energy and matter and light to the fabric of the universe, a single strand in its amazing tapestry.
— Julia Butler
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
— Mark Strand
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
— Paul Strand
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
— O. Henry
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
— Mark Strand
This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.
— Douglas Wilson
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
— William Lilly
I grow into my death.
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all. — Mark Strand
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all. — Mark Strand
There is no end to what we can learn. The book out there
Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind. — Mark Strand
Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind. — Mark Strand
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.
— Paul Strand
I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times.
— Dick Dale
What was he supposed to do besides break the living room window? Stand outside whacking off while she grabbed a cell phone and called for help?
— Jeff Strand
Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.
— Frederick Lenz
Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.
— Peter York