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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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