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Quote by Mark Doty

“I want what everybody wants, that's how I know I'm still breathing.”

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Mark Doty, born on August 10, 1953, is a renowned American poet. His works are known for their profound emotions and unique perspectives, exploring themes such as human emotions, nature, and urban life. more

“Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.”

Ifs Want Watches Cold Madness Mad Depth Smell Monsters Sat Idols Drag Thrones Monkeys Mud Foul

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.”

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.”

Should Mind Kindness Dear Cups New Year Acquaintance December January Funny New Years Eve

Book:Burns: 'A Red, Red Rose' and Other Poems

Source: Burns: 'A Red, Red Rose' and Other Poems

“I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.”

Comedy Drama Candle Versus

Author:Jo Brand

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

Asks Heaven Poet Splits Orthodoxy

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.”

Whole Evil Grows Poison

Book:Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

“A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.”

Gone Concern Intellect Smell Composition Syllables Wasps Phantom Tollbooth

Author:Norton Juster

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”

World Life Light Inspiration Spirit Struggle Forever Laughter Shots Mortals Confused Respectable Thorns Deluded

Book:The Philosophy of Santayana

Source: The Philosophy of Santayana

“We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”

Ifs World Important This World This Life Other Worlds

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.”

Ifs Want Laughing Plans

Book:My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

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