"What is healing, but a shift in perspectives?" — Mark Doty
"What is healing, but a shift in perspectives?"
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Mark Doty
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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 Healing Quotes
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one of 1,875 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious…
— Sai Baba
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and…
— Wendell Berry
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
— Erma Bombeck
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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
— Susie Bright
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his…
— Samuel Butler
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
— Lord Byron
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Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's…
— Nicolas Cage
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