Animal Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Mark Doty

“Doesn’t rain make a memory more intimate?”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Mark Doty

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

— Mark Doty

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us

— Mark Doty

“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?”

— 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.…

— 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…

— Mark Doty