"This is what history is: all those centuries……" — Mark Doty
"This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent."
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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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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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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
— Andrew Carnegie
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As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
— Mark Twain
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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
— George Carlin
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We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion.…
— Rajneesh
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your…
— Denis Waitley
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Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
— Robin Sharma
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A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result…
— P T Barnum
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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise…
— Unknown Author
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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