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Mark Doty Quotes

It’s freeing, to think that there’s always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language Picture Quote #1

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing? Picture Quote #1

The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost Picture Quote #1

This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent Picture Quote #1

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me Picture Quote #1

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear Picture Quote #1

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Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it Picture Quote #1

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem Picture Quote #1

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins Picture Quote #1

What is healing, but a shift in perspectives? Picture Quote #1

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us Picture Quote #1

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that’s why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn’t yours Picture Quote #1

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One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem Picture Quote #1

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards Picture Quote #1

I want what everybody wants, that’s how I know I’m still breathing Picture Quote #1

All my life I’ve lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes Picture Quote #1

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading Picture Quote #1

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude Picture Quote #1

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... in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art Picture Quote #1

It’s freeing, to think that there’s always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language Picture Quote #1

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It’s freeing, to think that there’s always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language. (Mark Doty Quotes) What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing? (Mark Doty Quotes) The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost (Mark Doty Quotes) This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent (Mark Doty Quotes) Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me (Mark Doty Quotes) We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear (Mark Doty Quotes) Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it (Mark Doty Quotes) There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem (Mark Doty Quotes) No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins (Mark Doty Quotes) What is healing, but a shift in perspectives? (Mark Doty Quotes) We love disasters that have nothing to do with us (Mark Doty Quotes) Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that’s why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn’t yours (Mark Doty Quotes) One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem (Mark Doty Quotes) To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards (Mark Doty Quotes) I want what everybody wants, that’s how I know I’m still breathing (Mark Doty Quotes) All my life I’ve lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes (Mark Doty Quotes) Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading (Mark Doty Quotes) Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude (Mark Doty Quotes) ... in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art (Mark Doty Quotes) It’s freeing, to think that there’s always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language (Mark Doty Quotes)