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James Laughlin Quotes
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me theyre more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I havent the least idea of where poetry is going. - James Laughlin Quotes
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great. - James Laughlin Quotes
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. - James Laughlin Quotes
I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. Thats certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. - James Laughlin Quotes
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. - James Laughlin Quotes
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesnt seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. - James Laughlin Quotes
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just dont say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. - James Laughlin Quotes
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if hes a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it. - James Laughlin Quotes
I think theres no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. - James Laughlin Quotes
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldnt agree with Bly that its a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. - James Laughlin Quotes
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. - James Laughlin Quotes
Its all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I dont think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends. - James Laughlin Quotes
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesnt suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. - James Laughlin Quotes
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesnt want to do a re-write. Thats something we do almost nothing of. - James Laughlin Quotes
Once weve taken on somebody we generally try to stick with them for at least two or three books to see if they will develop, if they will grow. - James Laughlin Quotes
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably. - James Laughlin Quotes
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because theyre just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors. - James Laughlin Quotes
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So its a very close relationship. We can do that because were so small. - James Laughlin Quotes
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good. - James Laughlin Quotes
We dont attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. - James Laughlin Quotes
We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wifes apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them. - James Laughlin Quotes
With me its the whole thing, its the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said. - James Laughlin Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Almost Beautiful Before Bell Belong Book Click
Continue Every Everything Feel Goes Going Great
Have Head Idea Just Know Least More
Oral Orchestra Poetry Rather Read Really Rings
Sense Something Strike Suppose Take Than That
Then They Theyre Things This Three Turn
Used Visual Wall Where
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