"Love, I think, is a gateway to the……" — Mark Doty

"Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it."

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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 Escape Quotes

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed...… — David Bailey
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher

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