Mark Strand Quotes

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings.

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

Love can sun the realms of night.

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

What I love best in life is new starts.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

I want to enlighten the world. We all need it. We need love and light.

Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.

There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.

I think 'Scrooge' is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it's about one man's transformation. It's saying that it's never too late to change, and that's a good feeling to have at Christmas.

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could not bear it. I think she woke, and dressed, and washed her face in cold water, and rubbed her shaven head. I think she walked among her sisters, and for the first time saw that they were so beautiful, and she loved them. I think she woke up one morning of all her mornings, and found that her heart was as white as a silkworm, and the sun was clear as glass on her brow, and she believed then that she could live, and hold peace in her hand like a pearl.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).