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

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Mark Doty

#Reading Quotes #Broken Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.”
“There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.”

Source : 1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.
“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.”
“It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.”
“Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!”
“I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I felt a lot of people around me drawing lines in the sand, and that year I decided: I don't want to draw lines and have to be on one side or the other, but if someone's going to push me to one or the other side of the line, I'm going to stand on the side of those being judged because that's where I feel Jesus meets people.”
“As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance”

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