Quotes by Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

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And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
I’ve been moving a little to the music while I worked …and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, tho — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
One last mystery: on one of the little ponds, this morning, I saw wind riffling the first of the waterlily leaves. They — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the wo — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t know why I was g — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last, — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
I’d write and read and let myself, a little at a time, step down into myself- like a stairway down into a dark, intimate — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
What can I do but stand with my mouth open, no sound emerging? My lips move and I wave my arms making gestures from the — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
I don’t know anything different about death than I ever have, but I feel differently. I inhabit this difference in feeli — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
After he died, there was a deep calm to his face; he seemed a kind of unfathomable, still well which opened on and down — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
…There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever it is that death is a — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
The state of mind above which my distraction floats like fog is suddenly perfectly clear, though the right word for it i — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to c — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt mars — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which displayed collect — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
And I was cooking for three, and teaching, and taking care of a man who’d just collapsed in my house; learning to cook l — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Christmas Eve, I give him packages which I open for him, since the bows and paper represent more labor than he could man — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir