"The physical reinvention of the world is endless,……" — Mark Doty
"The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone."
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Mark Doty
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
— Jeff Bingaman
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some…
— Vanna Bonta
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building…
— Sherrod Brown
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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step…
— Herb Caen
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant…
— Dale Carnegie
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers…
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or…
— Tadao Ando
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