Funny Quote by Dorianne Laux Download Open image “We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.” — Dorianne Laux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Ifs Inspirational Love Speak
We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived… — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“Then for the first time we became aware that our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man. In a… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak — Michel Callon Copy Share Image
The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?” — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty… — Dorianne Laux 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 dad and… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
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 those who've… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any… — Dorianne Laux 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 make myself… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what it is,… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
W.S Merwin says "after three days of rain" and I write "After Twelve Days of Rain." I like his quietude. I admire his ability… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image