"We long to connect; we fear that if……" — Mark Doty
"We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear."
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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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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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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 Connect Quotes
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you…
— David Attenborough
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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
— Martha Beck
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still…
— Kobe Bryant
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The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers…
— Herman Cain
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So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.
— Chris Brogan
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News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are…
— Rupert Murdoch
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More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there…
— Lance Secretan
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It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.
— John Dewey
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The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our…
— William James
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Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they…
— John C. Maxwell
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