"I want what everybody wants, that's how I……" — Mark Doty
"I want what everybody wants, that's how I know I'm still breathing..."
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25 Quotes by Mark Doty
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity…
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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…
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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…
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To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual…
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Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will…
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One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently…
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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…
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