Poetry Quotes by Jonathan W. Galassi

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

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

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

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

Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change.

— Jonathan W. Galassi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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