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Mark Strand

"The future is always beginning now."

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"The future is always beginning now."

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"With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs."

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"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."

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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

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"Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through."

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"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."

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"Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it."

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"The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning."

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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."

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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

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"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."
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"Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."
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"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."
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"It's very hard to write humor."
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"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."
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"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."
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"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."
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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
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"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."
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"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."
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