Home / Authors / Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky Quotes

Poet

Dorothea Lasky is an American poet born on March 27, 1978. Her poetry is known for its unique style and profound exploration of themes such as personal identity, religious faith, and gender issues. Lasky's work has gained widespread recognition in the literary world and has won multiple awards.

Filter quotes by topic

All Dorothea Lasky Rome Poetry Sad Unrequited Love Death Love Rejection Descriptive Alone Fear Hurt Life Pain Porn Sex Abandoned Allusion Anxiety Book

Famous Dorothea Lasky Quotes

“You know, I loved you I loved you I was wrong”

Love Sad Wrong Rome Declaration Of Love Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I sit there bloodless And my lust, too It rings”

Desire Poetry Lust Rome Dorothea Lasky Bloodless

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“What is the dull river Lethe I don't know, but I think it's evil And when I drink of it I don't see stars Instead I see the lime groves”

Poetry Evil Stars Rome Greek Mythology Allusion Dorothea Lasky Lethe

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“The blue night with trees Everything told me to feel something And yet everything you said was a lie And all my emotions were for nothing”

Poetry Sad Emotions Lies Rome Unrequited Love Liar Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“And I am so alone And I am alone here With the idea of ghosts And the idea of humanity, which is a cruel idea”

Poetry Humanity Alone Rome Ghosts Cruel Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“What is living But fear”

Life Poetry Fear Living Rome Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I never knew what feeling was I only felt the pain”

Feelings Pain Poetry Suffering Feeling Rome Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“Endless suffering and circle”

Poetry Suffering Endless Rome Trapped Circle Dorothea Lasky Endless Suffering

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“What's worse To never have them To have them only in part What's worse To be endlessly waiting To be endlessly waiting What's worse—nothing or nothing What's worse”

Poetry Waiting Endless Rejection Rome Unrequited Love Dorothea Lasky Endlessly Waiting

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“In every scene I am waiting for you To be with me in dreams”

Poetry Waiting Dreams Sad Rome Unrequited Love Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“My fear extends into the stars Don't you know I never will”

Poetry Stars Fear Anxiety Rome Limitless Inaction Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“It is as if I had made you believe In me once again It is as if you knew I was your true love It was as if I didn't have to know In this life All you were to me Was that flower”

Love Poetry Sad True Love Rome Ending Dorothea Lasky Last Lines

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“That true love cannot be calculated or contained”

Love Poetry True Love Rome Wild Dorothea Lasky Immeasurable

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I watch porn Cause I'll never be in love”

Poetry Sad Alone Rome In Love Porn Loveless Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“You were Something or someone I loved But I am a traveler And I love no one But the empty road”

Poetry Alone Rome Lost Love Traveler Loner Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“And I go looking looking for you in the streets And I never find you I never find you at all”

Poetry Lost Sad Rome Lost Love Searching Looking Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“And forgot about me You forgot about me And what I meant to you And then it was over”

Poetry Sad Forgotten Breakup Rome Abandoned Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“There were things I wished I'd said And done But it is too late now So I go Heavy with my offering This book, this book”

Book Poetry Sad Too Late Rome Offering Dorothea Lasky Meta Weighed Down

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“You will realize you love me But it will be too late You will cry out for me I will be long gone This is not a wish But what I knew to be so”

Poetry Sad Too Late Rome Unrequited Love Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“All of it is because Of how badly you lied to me I thought it was just you and me Or at the very least a tiny epigram”

Lying Poetry Sad Rome Unrequited Love Dishonesty Dorothea Lasky Lied To

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I only felt the pain The things the you inflicted on me”

Pain Poetry Sad Rome Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I never noticed anything but you But you but you So that I couldn't sleep”

Obsession Obsessed Rome Insomnia Dorothea Lasky Obsessive Love Sleepless

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“But a person can make a beautiful bed And murder you in it And that's what you did And not fuck me in it”

Poetry Metaphor Rejection Rome Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I've only fucked seven guys in my whole life But I've watched more porn than you ever will Hours and hours”

Poetry Sex Addiction Rome Porn Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“If you would have fucked me I would have been ok being Plath”

Poetry Sex Rejection Rome Unrequited Love Allusion Sylvia Plath Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“Complainers Some people don't want to die Because you can't complain when you're dead I hope heaven is just a bunch of men lying around Ready to do what I say Ready with dicks and some such When I'm dead I won't be looking for a partner As much as a heavenly creature After all I was promised virgins But I don't care about that as much As the eyes looking into me in abandon Like porn but better Because there will be no screen There will be no holy divider then Between me and my brethren And the smell of sunshine Will emit from every brow That's the kind of thing I expect from death That's the kind of thing I'm waiting for”

Death Poetry Sex Power Poem Rome Afterlife Porn Complainers Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“Not sure what of this you did offer me Never did amount to anything So with this I go”

Uncertainty Disappointed Rome Unrequited Love Farewell Unsure Dorothea Lasky It S Complicated

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I will go back and forth and never be”

Poetry Existence Rome Being Back And Forth Indecision Limbo Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I wrapped myself in leaden sheets And sank deep into my own infernal ocean”

Poetry Rome Self Destruction Dorothea Lasky Interior Withdrawn

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“To get rejected so vehemently Over and over again Until some said it was the rejection I was after No it wasn't I wanted the intensity that you sometimes promised”

Poetry Rejection Intensity Rome Unrequited Love Rejected Elusive Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“The sugar the ice on planets and stars The romance of the evening Coated in ice from your dead flesh Already rotting from within”

Romance Death Poetry Rome Rotting Descriptive Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“You are the kind of thing who takes from me And never gives anything away And when you call to me with your synchronicity I can't help but run to you You my horrible star I can't help but run to you when you call for me”

Poetry Rome Dorothea Lasky One Sided Love Unequal Affections Beck And Call In Thrall

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“Lilaced thing The soft rustle of beetle wings In air that is warm and grey And is not strong”

Rome Descriptive Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“Why? Because a demon is after me And he she it has been Since the day I was born”

Poetry Demon Rome Demons Persecuted Dorothea Lasky Personal Demons Tortured

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“But there is there to carry us past it”

Poetry Rome Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“He has a box of things that are separate and strange I think when he looks this way and that That he is making a play for me I think in so many ways he does it all for me”

Poetry Mysterious Rome Descriptive Eerie Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“With them, it is all horrible Like anything could happen”

Poetry Horrible Rome Unpredictable Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I have disillusionment of all o'clocks”

Poetry Clever Rome Disillusionment Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“And that is what we do with a lover And no you're not that That you made sure”

Poetry Rejection Rome Unrequited Love Lover Finality Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“There are things you want to say but don't There are things I want to say but I already said them A year ago or two or five, when we first met There were times I thought you knew I loved you You never knew We never were I died You died That's it”

Poetry Rome Unrequited Love Unspoken Finality Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“But death is the ultimate blissfulness To be a candy or a corpse The world holds you on its tongue And no one can save you”

Death Poetry Rome Suicidal Nihilism Morbid Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“Because poetry reminds you That there is no dignity In living You just muddle through and for what”

Life Poetry Rome Pointless Nihilism Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“They took the red string which bound me to you They sank it in the center of the ocean”

Poetry Breakup Rome Soul Mates Dorothea Lasky Separated

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“Am I going to die and all I will have are these fucking poems”

Life Death Poetry Fear Poet Anxiety Poems Rome Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“But what if I don't like anything as much as I pretend to”

Poetry Depression Rome Apathetic Faking It Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“In the deepest part I still loved him Had gone with him To the blazing star lodge”

Love Poetry Rome Dorothea Lasky Out Of Body

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I will fill the poems with great pain”

Pain Poetry Poems Rome Dorothea Lasky Meta Confessional

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“Thought Moves you past these lines Into conversation With the undead”

Poetry Rome Undead Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“Shoot sparks of green and grey Through time”

Poetry Time Rome Time Travel Descriptive Dorothea Lasky

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

“I put myself in I mean for what, why, Or who Did I manage to do this for if not you”

Poetry Rome Dorothea Lasky All In For You

Book:Rome: Poems

Source: Rome: Poems

About the Author

Born: March 27, 1978
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 61

Related Topics

Dorothea Lasky Rome Poetry Sad Unrequited Love Death Love Rejection Descriptive Alone Fear Hurt Life Pain Porn Sex Abandoned Allusion Anxiety Book

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Rome: PoemsRelated source material

Astro Poets: Your Guides to the ZodiacRelated source material

AweRelated source material

Similar Authors

Christopher BenfeyBrowse related quotes
Meghan O'RourkeBrowse related quotes
Emily DickinsonBrowse related quotes
Van HeflinBrowse related quotes
Ellen MalcolmBrowse related quotes
Reginald ShepherdBrowse related quotes
Susane ColasantiBrowse related quotes
Phill JupitusBrowse related quotes
Tinsel KoreyBrowse related quotes
Carl SandburgBrowse related quotes