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.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

The future is always beginning now.

I don't like to get in front of people.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.