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“The students always, always surprise me.”

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Dorianne Laux is an American poet known for her concise and profound poetry. Born on January 10, 1952, she has published several poetry collections since 1985. Her work often explores personal emotions, family relationships, and social issues. more

“We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Moments Lasts Past Literature Common Teacher Our Lives Reader Husband My Husband Disagree Our Past Last Words Working Life Simpatico

Author:Dorianne Laux

“I'm really sensitive. And they don't understand that, because my most comfortable feeling is anger. So I'll get angry if you said something to hurt my feelings or you're making me uncomfortable, I'll get angry, and be ready to do something about it.”

Ifs Said Feelings Hurt Ready Comfortable Angry Uncomfortable Sensitive Hurt My Feelings

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably reads ten books to my two and writes twice as much as I do.”

Writing Two Book Morning Ten Every Morning Meditating

Author:Dorianne Laux

“I don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.”

People Long I Can Problem Used Comfortable Long Time

Author:Curtis Jackson

“W.S Merwin says "after three days of rain" and I write "After Twelve Days of Rain." I like his quietude. I admire his ability to be simple without being simplistic.”

Writing Three Simple Ability Rain Admire Twelve

Author:Dorianne Laux

“It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what it is, but so much so that it overwhelms both sense and the senses. I aspire to something about his work, that imbues his poems, though I'm not sure I could say what that is. A purity, maybe, the kind of purity that comes from being beaten, like steel.”

Kind Hard Feelings Difficult Smell Senses Not Sure Purity Aspire Steel Beaten It Is What It Is

Author:Dorianne Laux

“I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.”

Ifs Knows Enough Lasts Imagination Middle Distance Trajectory

Author:Dorianne Laux

“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.”

Humans Looks Has Beens Color Originals Rose Size Scales Minors Hybrid

Author:Dorianne Laux

“I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.”

People Thinking Country Past Watergate

Author:Gore Vidal

“I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.”

Thinking Way Stills Would Be Courses President Democracy Army Raises Strikes Best Way True Democracy

Author:Gore Vidal

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