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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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Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not…
— Marianne Williamson
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What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?
— William Wordsworth
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All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at…
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The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when…
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I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile…
— Werner Herzog
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For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to…
— Edmund Waller
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Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They…
— Linda Ronstadt
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I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their…
— Jeff Buckley
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Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the…
— Jared Leto
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The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.
— Gregory Colbert
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The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking…
— Werner Herzog
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