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Mark Doty Quotes

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Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

Mark Doty (2009). “Dog Years: A Memoir”, p.8, Harper Collins

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

Mark Doty (2002). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy”, p.7, Beacon Press

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

"The lessons of objects: an interview with Mark Doty". Interview with Andrew David King, www.kenyonreview.org. December 12, 2012.

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us

Mark Doty (1993). “My Alexandria: Poems”, p.1, University of Illinois Press

Desire can make anything into a god.

Mark Doty (2012). “Paragon Park: Turtle Swan, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, Early Poems”, p.111, David R. Godine Publisher

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

Mark Doty (2012). “Paragon Park: Turtle Swan, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, Early Poems”, p.100, David R. Godine Publisher

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

Mark Doty (2009). “Heaven's Coast: A Memoir”, p.4, Harper Collins