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Poetry Quotes by 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather…
- 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 that…
More Poetry Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden