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Author - Dorianne Laux
Quotes by : Dorianne Laux
writing
Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with....
poetry
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.
the afterlife
Death comes to me again, a girlin a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling.It’s not so terrible she tells....
poetry
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory,....
poetry
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. ....
poem
Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the....
loss
How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?
poet
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor....
love
Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.
writing
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor....
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