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Dorianne Laux Quotes

How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire? Picture Quote #1

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone’s Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my body’s pliant cells, fastened onto my DNA Picture Quote #1

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure Picture Quote #1

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that’s something someone else has to call you. It’s like bragging Picture Quote #1

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I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I’m writing about those actual, factual experiences or not Picture Quote #1

If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with? And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’m not the only person in the world who is suffering. I’m trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices Picture Quote #1

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question Picture Quote #1

I have always loved too much,or not enough Picture Quote #1

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You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake Picture Quote #1

If trees could speak they wouldn’t Picture Quote #1

Maybe it’s what we don’t say/that saves us Picture Quote #1

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that’s something someone else has to call you. It’s like bragging Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t Picture Quote #1

How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail Picture Quote #1

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn’t identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you’re the one that bleeds Picture Quote #1

We aren’t suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it Picture Quote #1

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone’s Picture Quote #1

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How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire? (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. (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. (Dorianne Laux Quotes) I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my body’s pliant cells, fastened onto my DNA. (Dorianne Laux Quotes) I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure. (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. (Dorianne Laux Quotes) I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I’m writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. (Dorianne Laux Quotes) If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with? And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse (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 (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 (Dorianne Laux Quotes) Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question (Dorianne Laux Quotes) I have always loved too much,or not enough (Dorianne Laux Quotes) You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake (Dorianne Laux Quotes) If trees could speak they wouldn’t (Dorianne Laux Quotes) Maybe it’s what we don’t say/that saves us (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 (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 (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 (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 (Dorianne Laux Quotes) How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail (Dorianne Laux Quotes) Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn’t identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you’re the one that bleeds (Dorianne Laux Quotes) We aren’t suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it (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 (Dorianne Laux Quotes)