"And then we ease him out of that……" — Mark Doty

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a… - Mark Doty

"And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath."

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25 Quotes by Mark Doty

Mark Doty has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity…
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.
There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.
This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in…
No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.
Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable…
To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual…
Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will…
One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently…
We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.
The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work…

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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