top of page
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand

"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."

Standard 
 Customized
"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."

Exlpore more Destiny quotes

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Sometimes you find your way and sometimes way finds you!"

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Listen to the voice of God and a time will come when you will have an inheritance of all nations."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The destiny of the country depends on the actions and the position of His messengers."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"You need not strive to become your greater purpose."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"God has specific plans and intentions for every man."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"No man will love you, though you gave your life for him, unless you have a pretty face. So (might it not be?), the gods will not love you (however you try to pleasure them, and whatever you suffer) unless you have that beauty of soul. In either race. for the love of men or the love of a god, the winners and losers are marked out from birth. We bring our ugliness, in both kinds, with us into the world, with it our destiny."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Even a good family can become a trap for one's destiny when the family becomes your aim."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"If you have God's calling, the circumstances around you do not matter; God knows how to remove every obstacle."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"So he could not be hasty or impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.God placed them along my path. He had surprised himself with the thought. Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world, Like eating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. he had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The Lord has predestined a specific path for every person."

Explore more quotes by Mark Strand

Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"It's very hard to write humor."
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written."
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes."
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"The future is always beginning now."
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."
Quote_1.png
Mark Strand
"I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream."
bottom of page