Mark Doty Quotes

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• The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance…
• And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
• Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism,…
• ...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.
• Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity…

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