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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

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 sometimes
God comes to your window,
all bright light and black wings,
and you're just too tired to open it. — Dorianne Laux

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — 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 human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. — Charles Lamb

Knock him out, Paris!'
'Sure. Want me to spew diamonds from my ass while I'm at it? — Gena Showalter

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

There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks! — Albert Sorel

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

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

A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope. — Mufti Ismail Menk

England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally, and economically. It is not reasonable to demand from them to trigger Article 50. — Mark Rutte

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 savage
for 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