Mark Doty Quotes - Page 2

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

  Mark Doty

  Art, Moving, Agency

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• We learn to treasure words that people call us;
  we learn to live by words that hurt. We cannot toss
  them aside, so in time they become our dignity.

  Mark Doty

  Hurt, People, Toss

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• What is healing, but a shift in perspectives?

  Mark Doty

  Healing, Perspective

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• No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

  Mark Doty

  Queens, Said, Sequins

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• Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.

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  Rain, Play, Fog

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• Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process
  of knowing by means of language.

  Mark Doty

  Mean, Knowing, Language

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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 the horses this speaker loves. Here they are witnesses, companions to the spirit, and as vulnerably mortal as human beings. Socially and politically alert, lamenting and celebrating, Barrington's passionate poems inscribe the broad range of her affections.

  Mark Doty

  Horse, Animal, Soul

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• It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

  Mark Doty

  Thinking, Speech, Stuff

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• I want what everybody wants, that's how I know I'm still breathing.

  Mark Doty

  Breathing, Want, Stills

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• '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.

  Mark Doty

  Beautiful, Horse, Powerful

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