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;....

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

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

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