Quotes by : Mark Doty

Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large....

After he died, there was a deep calm to his face; he seemed a kind of unfathomable, still well which....

Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t....

...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...

A walk is a walk and must be taken; breakfast and dinner come when they are due. The routines of the....

And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening....

…There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever....

My mood settles around me, a wool coat that seems to grow heavier with the months in which I accomplish....

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

I don’t know anything different about death than I ever have, but I feel differently. I inhabit this....