"We love disasters that have nothing to do…" — Mark Doty
"We love disasters that have nothing to do with us"
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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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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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More Disaster Quotes
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it…
— Bashar al-Assad
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
— Lauren Bacall
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I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are…
— Christian Bale
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
— Martha Beck
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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially…
— Jello Biafra
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In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at…
— Joe Biden
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Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a…
— Jo Bonner
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There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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