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> [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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/because-the-golden-egg-gleamed-in-my-basket-once-though-my-childhood/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

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## More by Mark Doty

> [One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/one-ambition-of-poetry-certainly-is-to-create-a-reverberant-silence/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/the-attempt-to-render-visual-intricacy-makes-words-feel-unwieldy-like/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [“And now, a heap of roses beside the sea, white rugosa beside the foaming hem of shore: brave, waxen candles… And we talk as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/and-now-a-heap-of-roses-beside-the-sea-white-rugosa-beside-the/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [“Doesn’t rain make a memory more intimate?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/doesn-t-rain-make-a-memory-more-intimate/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/i-used-to-walk-out-at-night-to-the-breakwater-which-divides-the-end/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/and-i-think-this-greening-does-thaw-at-the-edges-at-least-of-my-own/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/in-judith-barrington-s-striking-collection-horses-and-the-human-soul/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/poetry-is-the-physical-enactment-of-a-process-of-knowing-by-means-of/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [We love disasters that have nothing to do with us](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/we-love-disasters-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-us/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/does-the-poem-reside-in-experience-or-in-self-consciousness-about/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> ['Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/everything-beautiful-occurs-when-the-body-is-suspended-helena-mesa/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/intimacy-says-the-phenomenologist-gaston-bachelard-is-the-highest/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/it-s-unsettling-to-lose-the-safety-of-the-familiar-even-when-what-s/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [Desire can make anything into a god.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/desire-can-make-anything-into-a-god/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

> [“In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which displayed collections…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/in-the-museums-we-used-to-visit-on-family-vacations-when-i-was-a-kid/)

[Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/)

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