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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
You'll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.Hmm, maybe I don't want to learn French — Stephanie Perkins
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 have always loved too much,or not enough. — Dorianne Laux
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
— Abraham Cowley
Nature, too, seems to sense that something is coming to and end; it's summoning all it's strength for one last surge.
— Melanie Raabe
We continue to speak, if only in whispers,to something inside us that longs to be named. — 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
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
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.
— Dorianne Laux
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
I hate that word blogIt sounds like a large accumulation of snot — Melissa James Gibson
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
I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong!
— Garth Ennis
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