Quotes by : Mark Doty

The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems....

I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t....

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

The state of mind above which my distraction floats like fog is suddenly perfectly clear, though the....

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...

What can I do but stand with my mouth open, no sound emerging? My lips move and I wave my arms making....

In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which....

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....