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.

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

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?