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

- Dorianne Laux

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

- Dorianne Laux

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

- 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.

- Dorianne Laux

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 tim…

- Dorianne Laux

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 w…

- Dorianne Laux

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

If trees could speak they wouldn't

- Dorianne Laux

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