Blizzard of One
Mark Strand
Top 10 Best Quotes
“No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.”
“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.”
“What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort Of being strangers, at least to ourselves.”
“Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems, And what is invisible stays that way.”
“ And into the close and mirrored catacombs of sleep We'll fall, and there in the faded light discover the bones, The dust, the bitter remains of someone who might have been Had we not taken his place.”
“Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time Is becoming the architecture of the next time.”
“Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway? Can anyone die without even a little?”
“Life should be more Than the body’s weight working itself from room to room.”
“For soon the leaves, Having gone black, would fall, and the annulling snow Would pillow the walk, and we, with shovels in hand, would meet, Bow, and scrape the sidewalk clean. What else would there be This late in the day for us but desire to make amends And start again, the sun’s compassion as it disappears.”
“Will the same day ever come back, and with it Our amazement at having been in it, or will only a dark haze Spread at the back of the mind, erasing events, one after The other, so brief they may have been lost to begin with?”
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sorrows, life, architecture, oblivion, purpose, time, poetry, living, nature, eras, ageing, poem, unknown, snowflakes, poems, potential, blizzard, self, fate, dream, invisble, estrangement, haunting, forgetting
