Quotes: Mark Strand

"It's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention." 

–– Mark Strand (1934-2014), Canadian-born American poet, essayist, translator 

Source: Brain Pickings 

via: Sketchbook 29, 2016, p. 110.

Quotes: Mark Twain

"Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors." 

–– Mark Twain (1835-1910), pen name of Samuel Clemens, American writer 

via Sketchbook 14, 2011, p. 85