I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without… — Dorianne Laux Deep gratitude Copy Share Image
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… — Dorianne Laux Singing Copy Share Image
“You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake, ridden in dark-eyed and morose but calm as a house after the… — Dorianne Laux Failure Copy Share Image
I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's… — Dorianne Laux Change Copy Share Image
The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Art Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the… — Dorianne Laux After death Copy Share Image
We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and that’s great. Everybody… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time… — Dorianne Laux Choices Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
![“It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what it is, but so much so that it overwhelms both sense and the senses. I aspire to something about his work, that imbues his poems, though I'm not sure I could say what that is. A purity…” quote by Dorianne Laux](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8c1/dorianne-laux-12252_aspire_it-s-difficult-to-talk-about-w-s-merwin_654128.png)
