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....

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,....

Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the....

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....

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor....