Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Dorothea Lasky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Dorothea Lasky.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She has published four full-length collections of poetry through Wave Books and one through Liveright/W.W. Norton, along with releasing chapbooks and appearing in various literary journals. She is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath
Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home. — © Dorothea Lasky
Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.
Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The packages are the poems and they sit shiny and new on every page of this fabulous and generous book. I want to go into the world that these poems create, just so that I can be given these terrifying presents again and again. I know you will, too. See you there.
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