"Every good poem asks a question, and every……" — Dorianne Laux

"Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question."

— Dorianne Laux

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22 Quotes by Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you…
A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will…
We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and that’s…
I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a…
I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to…
You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew…
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for…
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea,…
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary…
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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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it… — Saint Augustine
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of… — Marcus Aurelius
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience… — James A. Baldwin
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action… — James A. Baldwin
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. — Joey Adams
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,… — Charles Baudelaire
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. — Joseph Addison
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only… — Henry Ward Beecher
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if… — Erma Bombeck
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he… — Samuel Butler
Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one… — Buzz Aldrin
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some… — Nicolas Cage

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