Top 35 Mark Doty Quotes (2024 Update)

Mark Doty Quote: “What is healing, but a shift in perspectives?”

1. “What is healing, but a shift in perspectives?”

Mark Doty Quote: “The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.”

2. “The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.”

Mark Doty Quote: “I want what everybody wants, that’s how I know I’m still breathing...”

3. “I want what everybody wants, that’s how I know I’m still breathing...”

Mark Doty Quote: “Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.”

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

Mark Doty Quote: “You can know an animal – or a person, for that matter – in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.”

5. “You can know an animal – or a person, for that matter – in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.”

Mark Doty Quote: “No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.”

6. “No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.”

Mark Doty Quote: “Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.”

7. “Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.”

Mark Doty Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

Mark Doty Quote: “Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.”

9. “Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.”

Mark Doty Quote: “To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.”

10. “To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.”

Mark Doty Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he’s gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.”

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

Mark Doty Quote: “The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.”

13. “The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.”

Mark Doty Quote: “All my life I’ve lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.”

14. “All my life I’ve lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.”

Mark Doty Quote: “My mood settles around me, a wool coat that seems to grow heavier with the months in which I accomplish very little – and then, since the coat is too heavy to allow movement, accomplish nothing at all.”

15. “My mood settles around me, a wool coat that seems to grow heavier with the months in which I accomplish very little – and then, since the coat is too heavy to allow movement, accomplish nothing at all.”

Mark Doty Quote: “We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.”

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

Mark Doty Quote: “Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.”

17. “Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.”

Mark Doty Quote: “Say what you see and you experience yourself through your style of seeing and saying.”

18. “Say what you see and you experience yourself through your style of seeing and saying.”

Mark Doty Quote: “Desire can make anything into a god.”

19. “Desire can make anything into a god.”

Mark Doty Quote: “A walk is a walk and must be taken; breakfast and dinner come when they are due. The routines of the living are inviolable, no hiatus called on account of misery, spiritual crisis, or awful weather.”

20. “A walk is a walk and must be taken; breakfast and dinner come when they are due. The routines of the living are inviolable, no hiatus called on account of misery, spiritual crisis, or awful weather.”

Mark Doty Quote: “Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that’s why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn’t yours.”

21. “Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that’s why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn’t yours.”

Mark Doty Quote: “There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.”

22. “There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.”

Mark Doty Quote: “Maybe we should be glad, finally, that the word can’t go where the heart can, not completely. It’s freeing, to think there’s always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language. Love is common, too, absolutely so – and yet our words for it only point to it; they do not describe it. They are indicators of something immense: the word love is merely a sign that means something like This way to the mountain.”

23. “Maybe we should be glad, finally, that the word can’t go where the heart can, not completely. It’s freeing, to think there’s always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language. Love is common, too, absolutely so – and yet our words for it only point to it; they do not describe it. They are indicators of something immense: the word love is merely a sign that means something like This way to the mountain.”

Mark Doty Quote: “It’s a familiar experience to poets, that arrival of a phrase laden with more sense than we can immediately discern, a cluster of words that seems to know, as it were, more than we do.”

24. “It’s a familiar experience to poets, that arrival of a phrase laden with more sense than we can immediately discern, a cluster of words that seems to know, as it were, more than we do.”

Mark Doty Quote: “However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It’s only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.”

25. “However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It’s only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.”

Mark Doty Quote: “Don’t go in fear of that which has been looked at again and again. Poets return to the MOON immemorially; it is deeply compelling and we probably won’t ever get done with it. The challenge is to look at the familiar without the expected scaffolding of seeing, and the payoff is that such a gaze feels enormously rewarding; it wakes us up, when the old verities are dusted off, the tired approaches set aside.”

26. “Don’t go in fear of that which has been looked at again and again. Poets return to the MOON immemorially; it is deeply compelling and we probably won’t ever get done with it. The challenge is to look at the familiar without the expected scaffolding of seeing, and the payoff is that such a gaze feels enormously rewarding; it wakes us up, when the old verities are dusted off, the tired approaches set aside.”

Mark Doty Quote: “The heart is a repository of vanished things:.”

27. “The heart is a repository of vanished things:.”

Mark Doty Quote: “It’s freeing, to think that there’s always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.”

28. “It’s freeing, to think that there’s always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.”

Mark Doty Quote: “What is memory but a story about how we have lived?”

29. “What is memory but a story about how we have lived?”

Mark Doty Quote: “We love disasters that have nothing to do with us.”

30. “We love disasters that have nothing to do with us.”

Mark Doty Quote: “Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally – that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.”

31. “Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally – that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.”

Mark Doty Quote: “I imagine many urban dwellers love this feeling, that moment when you step out of your building and whatever has preoccupied you goes flapping away like a burst of pigeons rising all at once, wing and wind carrying them out into this pulsing, indifferent life.”

32. “I imagine many urban dwellers love this feeling, that moment when you step out of your building and whatever has preoccupied you goes flapping away like a burst of pigeons rising all at once, wing and wind carrying them out into this pulsing, indifferent life.”

Mark Doty Quote: “But in a still life, there is no end to our looking, which has become allied with the gaze of the painter; we look in and in, to the world of things, in their ambiance of cool or warm light, in and in, as long as we can stand to look, as long as we take pleasure in looking.”

33. “But in a still life, there is no end to our looking, which has become allied with the gaze of the painter; we look in and in, to the world of things, in their ambiance of cool or warm light, in and in, as long as we can stand to look, as long as we take pleasure in looking.”

Mark Doty Quote: “When the Self dissolves into a world of separate selves and death becomes real, love becomes a pact with grief; what is gained then is the inescapability poignant fact of individuality. There will never be another you, and I love the stubborn particularity of you because you will disappear.”

34. “When the Self dissolves into a world of separate selves and death becomes real, love becomes a pact with grief; what is gained then is the inescapability poignant fact of individuality. There will never be another you, and I love the stubborn particularity of you because you will disappear.”

Mark Doty Quote: “I need to be invited onto the back of a motorcycle and taken somewhere unfamiliar now and then; I welcome a degree of disruption, need a curtain pulled back, a hallway leading into some part of the world I’ve never seen.”

35. “I need to be invited onto the back of a motorcycle and taken somewhere unfamiliar now and then; I welcome a degree of disruption, need a curtain pulled back, a hallway leading into some part of the world I’ve never seen.”

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