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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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Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
— Art Spiegelman
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In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these…
— Hari Kunzru
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People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or…
— Renata Adler
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Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.…
— John Gresham Machen
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The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
— Dirk Bogarde
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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
— Ferran Adria
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
— Walter Benjamin
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I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed…
— Bob Dylan
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An important work of architecture will create polemics.
— Richard Meier
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The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I…
— H. L. Mencken
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