Quotes by : Mark Doty

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

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

You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding....

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

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

I’d write and read and let myself, a little at a time, step down into myself- like a stairway down....

One last mystery: on one of the little ponds, this morning, I saw wind riffling the first of the waterlily....

And I was cooking for three, and teaching, and taking care of a man who’d just collapsed in my house;....

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?