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Mark Doty has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss…
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Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
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All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.
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There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.
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This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,…
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No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that…
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To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though…
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Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what…
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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…
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We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.
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The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing,…
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How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of…
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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be…
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I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
— Norman Jewison
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This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,…
— Mark Doty
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Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise,…
— Tahereh Mafi
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Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips
— Shannon Hoon
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The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
— Unknown Author
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Tiptoe through the tulips with me.
— Al Dubin
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New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion.
— Bill Maher
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The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping…
— Lamar Alexander
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He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of…
— Carrie Jones
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Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the…
— Marge Piercy
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