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Dorianne Laux is an American poet.

✵ 10. January 1952
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Famous Dorianne Laux Quotes

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

Dorianne Laux

Source: What We Carry

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

Dorianne Laux

Source: The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

“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

Source: What We Carry

“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

Source: The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

“If trees could speak they wouldn't”

Dorianne Laux

Source: Facts About the Moon

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