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I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.
— Diana Peterfreund
If trees could speak they wouldn't
— Dorianne Laux
How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire? — Dorianne Laux
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. — Dorianne Laux
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
The students always, always surprise me.
— Dorianne Laux
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
— Dorianne Laux
I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche ...
— James Hillman
I have always loved too much,or not enough. — Dorianne Laux
The source and end is you.
— Epica
No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.
— Gloria Steinem
We continue to speak, if only in whispers,to something inside us that longs to be named. — Dorianne Laux
A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope.
— Mufti Ismail Menk
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
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
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
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.
— Dorianne Laux
American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
— Wendell Willkie
The design of a temple depends on symmetry , the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.
— Dorianne Laux
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
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
There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.
— Dorianne Laux
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
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
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
— Dorianne Laux
... They are savagefor knowledge, for beauty and truth.
They crawl on their knees to find it. — Dorianne Laux
Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.
— Dorianne Laux
The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
— Nadia Comaneci