"...in the face of all dangers, in what……" — Mark Doty
"...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art."
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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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More Agencies Quotes
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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
— Julian Assange
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The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
— Grace Abbott
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My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal…
— Herman Cain
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You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a…
— Dick Cheney
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government…
— Chris Chocola
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Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom…
— Carl F. H. Henry
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and…
— Winston Churchill
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light…
— John Mott
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial…
— Gijs de Vries
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
— John Dewey
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