"You’ve traveled this far on the back of…" — Dorianne Laux
"You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake"
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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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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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More Every Mistake Quotes
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one of 69 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a…
— Lloyd Mangrum
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You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning…
— Layne Beachley
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With every effort, I learned a lot. With every mistake and failure, not only mine, but of those around me,…
— Mark Cuban
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True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you…
— Kevin Spacey
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Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking…
— Tony Buzan
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If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can…
— Ralph Marston
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Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation
— Unknown Author
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Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.
— Stefon Harris
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Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within…
— C.D. Wright
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