"We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness……" — Dorianne Laux
"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 of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it."
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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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A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will…
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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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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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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will…
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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