Mark Strand - Room Quotes

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The elements I need to write, a place, a desk, a familiar room. I need some of my books there, I need quiet. zero I'm picturing as I'm writing. I'm putting together what I need to have this thing alive.

Mark Strand

From the shadow of domes in the city of domes,
A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room
And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up
From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all
There was to it.

Mark Strand

And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?

Mark Strand