I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make … - Dorianne Laux

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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Dorianne Laux

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.

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You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake

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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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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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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.

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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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