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
The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her… — Dorianne Laux Abused 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 Bleeds Copy Share Image
I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who… — Dorianne Laux Distance Copy Share Image
I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a… — Dorianne Laux Book 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
“To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive… — Dorianne Laux Art Copy Share Image
“And oh, the oh my nape of the neck. The up-swept oh my nape of the neck. I could walk behind anyone… — Dorianne Laux Fall in love 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 Black 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
We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last… — Dorianne Laux Books Copy Share Image
I write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise.… — Dorianne Laux Angel Copy Share Image
Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window,… — Dorianne Laux Blazing 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
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
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