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Broken Quote by Mark Doty

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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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One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that…

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... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and…

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“And now, a heap of roses beside the sea, white rugosa beside the foaming hem of shore: brave, waxen candles… And we talk as…

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

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“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt…

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“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding…

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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…

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

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We love disasters that have nothing to do with us

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

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'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air.…

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Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or…

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Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

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You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.

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The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…

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Marriage is a desperate thing.

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The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-…

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There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

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Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

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My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

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Don't fix what's not broken.

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“ving self and others is an every second of every day of every week, of every month, of every year gift that should not…

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Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the…

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Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

Arthur Hugh Clough

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