"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."

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Source : "The lessons of objects: an interview with Mark Doty". Interview with Andrew David King, www.kenyonreview.org. December 12, 2012.

Mark Doty

#Mean Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Silence Quotes

“A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.”
“Dance to the light that is your soul.”
“A lot of us New Yorkers have bought apartments or bought lofts or are struggling to do it because at least that gives you some respite from the inexorable tightening of the screw every year - rent. But that puts you on this treadmill where you are constantly thinking, "Should I sell this place and move somewhere cheaper?" Artists have migrated across the East River and eastward in Brooklyn - as have non-artist populations, apparently going back to the Lenape Indians. There's been a migration to New Jersey, to Philadelphia, and farther afield.”
“In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.”

Source : "'Papadaddy' Clyde Edgerton advises other 'older dads'". Interview with Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2013.
“The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange.”
“Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.”
“Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldnt bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.”
“People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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