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. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people,… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
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… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
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.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
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… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
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… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
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… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
