Quotes About Mark Doty

Concerning Some Recent Criticism of His Work —Glaze and shimmer, luster and gleam; can't he think of anything but all that sheen? —No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

My mood settles around me, a wool coat that seems to grow heavier with the months in which I accomplish very little--and then, since the coat is too heavy to allow movement, accomplish nothing at all.