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That line by Mark Strand is beautifully simple but quietly profound.
He’s suggesting that time isn’t just something that passes—it’s something you enter. Every moment is uncharted, like stepping into a new landscape. Even if your surroundings look familiar, the exact combination of thoughts, feelings, and circumstances has never existed before.
It can be read a few ways:
- Mindfulness: each moment is unique, so it deserves attention.
- Uncertainty: life is constantly unknown—there’s no exact repetition.
- Possibility: every second holds something new, even if it feels ordinary.
It’s almost like he’s turning time into geography—life as a continuous journey through places that don’t exist until you arrive.
What does it feel like to you when you read it?
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