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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
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
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
God 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
You did tell me what a very superior sort of mind your friend has. What a pity he was born trapped in a man's body.
— Laurie R. King
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
or not enough. — Dorianne Laux
I'd like to build a TV company for myself.
— Rob Lowe
To launch into a sphere you need to discover the gifts needed for it
— Sunday Adelaja
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
— Shelley Winters
We continue to speak, if only in whispers,
to something inside us that longs to be named. — Dorianne Laux
to something inside us that longs to be named. — Dorianne Laux
Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
— David Mitchell
If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
— Kate Winslet
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
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
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
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
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
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
Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings