I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way of tying… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel younger than… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry is the… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change. — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in my opinion… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver,… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstruction and they don't… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned enough to really still believe that the poem is an object to be memorized, venerated... I still believe in that kind of… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me. They want… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
