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The brain, as busy as it can be, is actually very lazy...It sees what it expects to see — James R. Doty

Doesn't rain make a memory more intimate? — Mark Doty

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us — Mark Doty

But guns weren't themselves inherently frightening. And — J.L. Doty

This is the entrance
To the city of you... — Mark Doty

In the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art. — Mark Doty

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

What is memory but a story about how we have lived? — Mark Doty

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem. — Mark Doty

What is healing, but a shift in perspectives? — Mark Doty

Who can even imagine what that would mean, for blue to be - well, more? All — Mark Doty

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process
of knowing by means of language. — Mark Doty

We live the stories we tell; the stories we don't tell live us. — Mark Doty

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins. — Mark Doty

To tell a story is to take power over it. — Mark Doty

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

Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience? — Mark Doty

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

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

We are what we myth. — William G. Doty

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

I want what everybody wants,
that's how I know I'm still
breathing ... — Mark Doty

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

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

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

Desire can make anything into a god. — Mark Doty

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes. — Mark Doty

Say what you see and you experience yourself through your style of seeing and saying. — Mark Doty

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

Earlier in her career, she illustrated the first paperback covers for the entire Black Stallion series, as well as — Jean Slaughter Doty

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know. — Mark Doty