Quotes by : Mark Doty

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

I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor....

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

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

To tell a story is to take power over it.

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

Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in....

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....

…I have fallen in love with a painting. Though that phrase doesn’t seem to suffice, not really—rather’s....