"Who you are contributes to your poetry in……" — Dorianne Laux
"Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds."
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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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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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More Bleeds Quotes
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
— Dean Koontz
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Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden…
— Eminem
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What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads…
— Rob Ford
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My heart bleeds for them when someone gets killed. But it’s their own fault at the end of the day.
— Rob Ford
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Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every…
— Murtala Mohammed
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When people's ill, they come to I, I Physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's…
— John C. Lettsome
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I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if…
— Hugo Wolf
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Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
— C.S. Lewis
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Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my…
— Stevie Smith
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Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer
— Ronnie James Dio
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When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.
— Cyril Tourneur
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