"A poem is like a child; at some……" — Dorianne Laux
"A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world."
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Dorianne Laux
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22 Quotes by Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux has 22 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for…
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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,…
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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…
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Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the…
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a…
— Tyra Banks
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