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Top 30 Dorianne Laux Quotes (2025 Update)

Dorianne Laux Quote: “You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.”

1. “You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “If trees could speak they wouldn’t.”

2. “If trees could speak they wouldn’t.”

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Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

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

6. “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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Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.”

8. “I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “The students always, always surprise me.”

9. “The students always, always surprise me.”

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Dorianne Laux Quote: “I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I’m excited about, I bring it in.”

10. “I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I’m excited about, I bring it in.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I’ve found to be true: writing begets writing.”

11. “There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I’ve found to be true: writing begets writing.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that’s something someone else has to call you. It’s like bragging.”

14. “I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that’s something someone else has to call you. It’s like bragging.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “I’m not the only person in the world who is suffering. I’m trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.”

15. “I’m not the only person in the world who is suffering. I’m trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.”

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

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I’m writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.”

17. “I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I’m writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.”

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Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

18. “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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Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.”

20. “Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.”

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Dorianne Laux Quote: “There’s no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.”

21. “There’s no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.”

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Dorianne Laux Quote: “Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.”

22. “Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.”

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Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.”

24. “The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don’t sink.”

27. “The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don’t sink.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It’s like a rose, maybe a hybrid with color and size differentials, but the same genus, plucked from the same original blowsy family.”

28. “The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It’s like a rose, maybe a hybrid with color and size differentials, but the same genus, plucked from the same original blowsy family.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

29. “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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Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “I’ve arrived at a time in my life when I could believe almost anything.”

32. “I’ve arrived at a time in my life when I could believe almost anything.”

— Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux Quote: “I want to stay on the back porch while the world tilts toward sleep, until what I love misses me, and calls me in.”

33. “I want to stay on the back porch while the world tilts toward sleep, until what I love misses me, and calls me in.”

— Dorianne Laux

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