"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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Source : Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

Dorianne Laux

#Self Esteem Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Editors Quotes

“I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.”
“It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.”
“I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.”

Source : "Lee DeWyze says there's still 'a lot to prove' on his new album" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. June 2, 2010.
“One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.”

Source : "With a new budget director, will the price be right for Republicans?" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2014.
“Find one person in the audience and sing to them with all of your heart. And then cast a spell over them. Hoss, if you can't do it with feeling - don't.”

Source : "The Real Patsy Cline". Documentary film, 1986.
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
“I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.”

Source : "Julio Iglesias mounting 'comeback' with new versions of his famous songs". www.thestar.com. August 24, 2012.
“I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.”

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