Dorianne Laux quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Dorianne Laux on Wise Famous Quotes.

Dorianne Laux quotes: You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

Dorianne Laux quotes: If trees could speak they wouldn't

If trees could speak they wouldn't

Dorianne Laux quotes: How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

How many losses does it take to stop a heart,
to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

Dorianne Laux quotes: That's how it is sometimesGod comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

That's how it is sometimes
God comes to your window,
all bright light and black wings,
and you're just too tired to open it.

Dorianne Laux quotes: Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Dorianne Laux quotes: I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.

Dorianne Laux quotes: The students always, always surprise me.

The students always, always surprise me.

Dorianne Laux quotes: Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

Dorianne Laux quotes: I have always loved too much, or not enough.

I have always loved too much,
or not enough.

Dorianne Laux quotes: There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.

Dorianne Laux quotes: And oh, the oh my nape of the neck. The up-swept oh my nape of the neck. I could walk behind anyone and fall in love. Don't stop. Don't turn

And oh, the oh my nape of the neck. The up-swept oh my nape of the neck. I could walk behind anyone and fall in love. Don't stop. Don't turn around.

Dorianne Laux quotes: A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

Dorianne Laux quotes: The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink.

The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink.

Dorianne Laux quotes: We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.

We continue to speak, if only in whispers,
to something inside us that longs to be named.

Dorianne Laux quotes: I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Dorianne Laux quotes: Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.

Dorianne Laux quotes: I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.

I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.

Dorianne Laux quotes: When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the rarefied, you are humbled.

When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the rarefied, you are humbled.

Dorianne Laux quotes: There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.

There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.

Dorianne Laux quotes: We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

Dorianne Laux quotes: I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

Dorianne Laux quotes: Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

Dorianne Laux quotes: ... They are savagefor knowledge, for beauty and truth.They crawl on their knees to find it.

... They are savage
for knowledge, for beauty and truth.
They crawl on their knees to find it.

Dorianne Laux quotes: Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.