Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way… — Jonathan W. Galassi Communication 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… — Jonathan W. Galassi Concerned 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… — Jonathan W. Galassi Break 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… — Jonathan W. Galassi Democracy Copy Share Image
Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change. — Jonathan W. Galassi Change 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… — Jonathan W. Galassi Poetry 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… — Jonathan W. Galassi Attention 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… — Jonathan W. Galassi Book 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… — Jonathan W. Galassi Change 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… — Jonathan W. Galassi Books 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… — Jonathan W. Galassi Believe 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.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Consistently Copy Share Image
