Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Dorianne Laux's Popular Quotes

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

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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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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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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…

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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 tim…

- 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.

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

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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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If trees could speak they wouldn't

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