"If trees could speak they wouldn't" — Dorianne Laux

"If trees could speak they wouldn't"

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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,…
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.
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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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