"There are those fortunate hours when the world……" — Mark Doty
"There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem."
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25 Quotes by Mark Doty
Mark Doty has 25 quotes on this site.
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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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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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In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially…
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More Consent Quotes
This quote is filed under Consent Quotes,
one of 364 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
— Albert Camus
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in…
— Albert Camus
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One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without…
— Kyle Chandler
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence,…
— William Ellery Channing
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I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.
— Diablo Cody
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
— William Shakespeare
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Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they…
— Unknown Author
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Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned…
— Christopher Columbus
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The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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