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The Art of Description: World into Word QUOTES

The Art of Description: World into Word QUOTES

1 " What is memory but a story about how we have lived? "

― Mark Doty , The Art of Description: World into Word

2 " Don’t go in fear of that which has been looked at again and again. Poets return to the MOON immemorially; it is deeply compelling and we probably won’t ever get done with it. The challenge is to look at the familiar without the expected scaffolding of seeing, and the payoff is that such a gaze feels enormously rewarding; it wakes us up, when the old verities are dusted off, the tired approaches set aside. "

― Mark Doty , The Art of Description: World into Word

3 " It’s a familiar experience to poets, that arrival of a phrase laden with more sense than we can immediately discern, a cluster of words that seems to know, as it were, more than we do. "

― Mark Doty , The Art of Description: World into Word

4 " Who can even imagine what that would mean, for blue to be—well, more? All "

― Mark Doty , The Art of Description: World into Word