Sweet Machine Quotes

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

breathing...”
― Mark Doty, Sweet Machine

“Doesn’t rain make a memory more intimate?”
― Mark Doty, Sweet Machine

“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.”
― Mark Doty, Sweet Machine

“(I know, lacquer
and tumble and glow,

burnished and fired

and hazed) it’s because
what else Lord

to wear? Every sequin’s
an act of praise.”
― Mark Doty, Sweet Machine