"Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it."
- Mark 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."
"What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?"
"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 p..."
"...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail..."
"To tell a story is to take power over it."
"And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding my bicycle, I catch myself feeling, in a way that’s as old as I am but su..."
"I’ve been moving a little to the music while I worked …and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I’ve been holding myself…Mo..."
"One last mystery: on one of the little ponds, this morning, I saw wind riffling the first of the waterlily leaves. They haven’t all emerged yet, but new circles tattoo the water, here and there, a cop..."
"Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the world, in the principle of things expressing itself in splendid specificity, a han..."