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

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Source : Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

Dorianne Laux

“Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.”
“You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.”
“Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.”
“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.”
“If you're consumed with God's life, if you share his love with others, if you practice it each day, you too can start a revolution of love in your own home, in your own church, in your own neighborhood.”
“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.”

Source : "Seeing and Reading" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2004.
“Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.”
“I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.”

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