Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the world, in the principle of things expressing itself in splendid specificity, a handful of images: a lovers irreplaceable body, the roil and shimmer of the sea overshot with sunlight, a handful of cherries, the texture and weight of a word. The word that seems most apt is partake We can say we partake of something but we may just as accurately say we take part in something we are implicated in another being, which is always the beginning of wisdom, isnt it- that involvement which enlarges us, which engages the heart, which takes out of the routine limitations of self?
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Mark Doty was a contemporary American poet and memoirist. Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work My Alexandria. He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Read more on Wikipedia →