Dorianne Laux Quotes

• You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.

  Dorianne Laux

  Mistake, Traveled

  "The Book of Men". Book by Dorianne Laux, February 28, 2011.

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• Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

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  Writing, Simple, Metaphor

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If trees could speak they wouldn't

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  Tree, Speak, Ifs

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• We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

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  Song, Writing, Singing

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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• I write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise. I write to hear myself breathing. I write to be doing something while I wait to be called to my appointment with death. I write to be done writing. I write because writing is fun.

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  Fun, Angel, Writing

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• A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

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  Children, Let It Go, World

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.188, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

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  Tired, Light, Wings

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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

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  Poet, Asks

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We continue to speak, if only in whispers,
  to something inside us that longs to be named.

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  Speak, Ifs

  Dorianne Laux (2011). “The Book of Men: Poems”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

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  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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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 block. I’m always writing, but there are times where I’m just not on my game, and I’ll use that time to read some new poets, go see some art, walk down to the river and just stare at it, or have a conversation with my sister, or whatever—do whatever it is that I do in my life, hoping that I’ll get filled up enough. And something will happen, some juggling will happen and boom.

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  Art, Block, Writing

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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 the car. I want to go inside Fred’s soul and play there.

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  Play, People, Car

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• I have always loved too much,
  or not enough.

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  Demasiado, suficiente

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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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 next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.

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  Lectura, escritura, voz

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.

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  Girl, Sweet, Rain

  Dorianne Laux (2000). “Smoke: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

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  Fall, Writing, Important

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• I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.

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  Voice, Suffering, Trying

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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• When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the rarefied, you are humbled.

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  Struggle, People, Littles

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• 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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  Cutting, Numbers, Important

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (1997). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.197, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Cuanto más acumulamos, más profundidad, peso y amplitud podemos aportar a los poemas, que luego tenemos que tirar por la borda para no hundirnos.

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  Depth, Needs, Weight

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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, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.

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  Spiritual, Art, Memories

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with?' And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse.

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  World, Want, Down And

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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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 admire thinks you're any good.

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  Self Esteem, Thinking, Editors

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.

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  Gratitude, Soul, Helping

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• I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

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  Writing, Life Experience, Factual

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