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Dorianne Laux has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks…
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A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its…
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We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and that’s great. Everybody…
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I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m…
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I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car.…
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You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake
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Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
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Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should…
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Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
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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…
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Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.
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We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the…
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness…
— June Jordan
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if…
— Robert Frost
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...a good poem contains both meaning and music
— Eve Merriam
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You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.
— Theodore Roethke
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Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves…
— Robert Genn
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word…
— Alasdair Gray
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I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I…
— Gil Scott-Heron
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A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
— David Whyte
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A good poem is a contribution to reality.
— Dylan Thomas
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It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.
— Brandon Stanton
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to…
— Dylan Thomas
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