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
“How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?” — Dorianne Laux Death 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
The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her… — Dorianne Laux Beaten Copy Share Image
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux Factual Copy Share Image
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux Good writing Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Fall 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 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 Admire Copy Share Image
Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should… — Dorianne Laux Exhausted 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 Aspire Copy Share Image
We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named. — Dorianne Laux Funny Copy Share Image
W.S Merwin says "after three days of rain" and I write "After Twelve Days of Rain." I like his quietude. I admire… — Dorianne Laux Ability 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 Down and Copy Share Image
Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely… — Dorianne Laux Cutting Copy Share Image
I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car.… — Dorianne Laux Car Copy Share Image
I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices. — Dorianne Laux Persons 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 Breadth Copy Share Image
I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again… — Dorianne Laux Students Copy Share Image
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and… — Dorianne Laux Belly Copy Share Image
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep… — Dorianne Laux Apprehension 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 Aspect 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 Air Copy Share Image
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