Mark Strand
Mark Strand was an American poet, essayist, and translator, known for his contributions to contemporary poetry and for serving as the Poet Laureate of the United States.
"A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is like to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, a poem permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves."