Quotes by Mark Doty

Mark Doty

… the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don’t fell accurate.

Feels

Here And There

Intricacy

…in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.

Agency

Art

Moving

‘Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,’ Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa’s poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.

Beautiful

Horse

Powerful

All my life I’ve lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

Diminish

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he’s gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

Ease

Gone

Kissing

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

Animal

Eggs

Two

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination’s entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.

Being In Love

Grief

Heart

Desire can make anything into a god.

Desire

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that’s why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn’t yours.

Darkness

Looks

Stories

Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.

Grief

Heart

Thinking

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Accomplishment

Achievement

Agency

Agreement

Ambition

Animal

Art

Beautiful

Being In Love

Breathing

Broken

Darkness

Desire

Diminish

Disappear

Disaster

Distance

Dog

Ease

Eggs

Expression

Feels

Fog

Gateways

Gone

Grief

Healing

Heart

Here And There

Heroism

Home

Horse

Hours

House

Hurt

Individuality

Inspirational

Intricacy

Investigation

Joy

Kissing

Knowing

Language

Light

Long

Looks

Loss

Made

Mean

Memories

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Quotes by Mark Doty

Mark Doty

… the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don’t fell accurate.

…in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.

All my life I’ve lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he’s gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

Desire can make anything into a god.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that’s why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn’t yours.

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