You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.

Mark Doty
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  1. Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

  2. And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

  3. What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

  4. 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 physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

  5. ...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...

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