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Dorianne Laux Quotes

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“I wish I could say I was the kind of child
who watched the moon from her window, 
would turn toward it and wonder. 
I never wondered.”
— Dorianne Laux, "Moon In The Window," in Facts About The Moon
Tagged: What It Means To Be Human, Existence, Finding Yourself, Thinking, Identity, Who I Am
“I was twelve.
What did I know?
How could I have imagined then
how alone I would become.”
— Dorianne Laux, "My Brother's Grave," Facts About The Moon
Tagged: broken, What's Been Broken, Growing Up, Youth, Brokenness, Becoming
“What hasn’t

been rent, divided, split? Broken
the days into nights, the night sky

into stars, the stars into patterns
I make up as I trace them

with a broken-off blade
of grass. Possible, unthinkable.”
— Dorianne Laux, "What's Broken," Facts About The Moon
Tagged: broken, What's Possible, What's Been Broken
“And I feel my body fully, vessel of desire, 
my stomach a pond of want and warmth, 
utterly human, divine and awake. And I can hear 
each bird's separate song, the chirt and scree, 
the sip, sip, sip, the dwindle and uplift yearning, 
the soup's on, soup's on, let up, let it go 
of each individual voice, and I know I am here, 
in this widening light, as we all are, with them, 
even the most damaged among us or lonely 
or nearly dead, and that for each of us there is 
some small sound like an unseen bird 
ora red bike grinding along the gravel path 
that could wake us, and take us home.”
— Dorianne Laux, "Morning Song," in Facts About The Moon
Tagged: Being a woman, humanity, Experiencing Life, Existing In Nature, What It Means To Be Human, Existence, Finding Yourself, Finding Home
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