Quotes by : Dorianne Laux

Moon In the WindowI wish I could say I was the kind of childwho watched the moon from her window,would....

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with....

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Death comes to me again, a girlin a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling.It’s not so terrible she tells....

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory,....

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

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all;....

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

Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems....

The slate black sky. The middle stepof the back porch. And long agomy mother's necklace, the beadsrolling....