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Reader 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 try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle…
- I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.
- 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 there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's…
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