Mark Doty Quotes

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a Mark Doty Picture Quote

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a

— Mark Doty

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know. Mark Doty Picture Quote

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.

— Mark Doty

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. Mark Doty Picture Quote

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love.

— Mark Doty

The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, Mark Doty Picture Quote

The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways,

— Mark Doty

I want what everybody wants, that’s how I know I’m still breathing… Mark Doty Picture Quote

I want what everybody wants, that’s how I know I’m still breathing…

— Mark Doty

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us Mark Doty Picture Quote

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us

— Mark Doty

I’ve been moving a little to the music while I worked …and Mark Doty Picture Quote

I’ve been moving a little to the music while I worked …and

— Mark Doty

Poetry is … the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language. Mark Doty Picture Quote

Poetry is … the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

All my life I’ve lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes. Mark Doty Picture Quote

All my life I’ve lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

— Mark Doty

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins. Mark Doty Picture Quote

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

— Mark Doty

This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over Mark Doty Picture Quote

This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over

— Mark Doty

What is healing, but a shift in perspectives? Mark Doty Picture Quote

What is healing, but a shift in perspectives?

— Mark Doty

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, Mark Doty Picture Quote

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute,

— Mark Doty

Desire can make anything into a God. Mark Doty Picture Quote

Desire can make anything into a God.

— Mark Doty

‘Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,’ Helena Mesa quotes Mark Doty Picture Quote

‘Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,’ Helena Mesa quotes

— Mark Doty

Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist Mark Doty Picture Quote

Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist

— Mark Doty

In Judith Barrington’s striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions Mark Doty Picture Quote

In Judith Barrington’s striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions

— Mark Doty

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it. Mark Doty Picture Quote

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

— Mark Doty

Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or Mark Doty Picture Quote

Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or

— Mark Doty

Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our Mark Doty Picture Quote

Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our

— Mark Doty

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that’s why you might read Mark Doty Picture Quote

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that’s why you might read

— Mark Doty

Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I Mark Doty Picture Quote

Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I

— Mark Doty

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem. Mark Doty Picture Quote

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.

— Mark Doty

It’s freeing, to think that there’s always an aspect of us outside Mark Doty Picture Quote

It’s freeing, to think that there’s always an aspect of us outside

— Mark Doty

… the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks Mark Doty Picture Quote

… the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks

— Mark Doty

We learn to treasure words that people call us; we learn to Mark Doty Picture Quote

We learn to treasure words that people call us; we learn to

— Mark Doty

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in Mark Doty Picture Quote

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in

— Mark Doty

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing? Mark Doty Picture Quote

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

— Mark Doty

It’s unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what’s Mark Doty Picture Quote

It’s unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what’s

— Mark Doty

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood Mark Doty Picture Quote

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood

— Mark Doty

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate Mark Doty Picture Quote

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate

— Mark Doty

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear. Mark Doty Picture Quote

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

— Mark Doty

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken Mark Doty Picture Quote

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken

— Mark Doty

The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing Mark Doty Picture Quote

The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing

— Mark Doty

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