Quotes by Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux

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.

Children

Let It Go

World

And I saw it didn’t matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds–nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.

Book

Heart

Philosophy

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.

Girl

Rain

Sweet

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

Asks

Poet

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

Fall

Important

Writing

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

Metaphor

Simple

Writing

How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.

Blue

Doors

Night

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.

Students

Wells

I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my body’s pliant cells, fastened onto my DNA.

Cells

Dna

Dream

I don’t know if we ever have enough distance to “see” our own trajectory. We’re in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

Distance

Imagination

Lasts

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Angel

Art

Artist

Asks

Block

Blue

Book

Calling

Car

Cells

Children

Coffee

Color

Cutting

Dad

Dark

Depth

Discovery

Distance

Dna

Doe

Doors

Down And

Dream

Editors

Enough

Eye

Factual

Fall

Feelings

Fun

Girl

Grateful

Gratitude

Heart

Helping

Husband

Ifs

Imagination

Important

Kids

Lasts

Let It Go

Life Experience

Light

Littles

Looks

Meditation

Memories

Metaphor

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Quotes by Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux

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.

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

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

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

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.

I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my body’s pliant cells, fastened onto my DNA.

I don’t know if we ever have enough distance to “see” our own trajectory. We’re in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

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