Quote by: Mark Doty

I don’t know anything different about death than I ever have, but I feel differently. I inhabit this difference in feeling- or does it live in me?- at the same time as I’m sorrowing. The possibility of consolation, of joy even, does not dispel the sorrow. Sorrow is the cathedral, the immense architecture; in its interior there’s room for almost everything; for desire, for flashes of happiness, for making plans for the future…


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Author Bio


  • NameMark Doty
  • DescriptionNovelist, memoirist
  • BornAugust 10, 1953
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Lambda Literary Award; National Book Award