“I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.” ThinkingWorldDealsKnowingReaderExcuseNot KnowingNo ExcusesAmerican Poetry Author:James Laughlin
“I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's 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.” PeopleThinkingMightDealsCasesStagePounds Author:James Laughlin
“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.” ThinkingYearsKindI CanEndsSeemsFivePeriodsSixYears AgoConcreteDead Ends Author:James Laughlin
“I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.” ThinkingMeanSeemsReadingIndividualPoetOrdinarySay AnythingPedestriansPoetry Reading Author:James Laughlin
“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.” IfsThinkingPersonsWholeReadingDifferencesPoetPersonalityReaderSitting Author:James Laughlin
“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's 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.” ThinkingWellsEnoughIndividualAbilityInterestingAttentionPoetDependsShapesAgreeImpulseVisualsBad Things Author:James Laughlin
“It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.” ThinkingWellsGroupsResponsibleConcentrationCampsSmall GroupsConcentration Camp Author:James Laughlin
“Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't 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.” IfsThinkingWayMindTwoImportantCoursesReadingStreetsPoetReaderAddTwo WaysRecollectionTwo Way StreetPoetry Reading Author:James Laughlin
“I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.” ThinkingAgeDealsPoetDifficulty Author:James Laughlin
