Books Quote by James Laughlin

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

— Gilbert Highet

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

— David Biespiel

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk,…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is…

— Adrienne Rich

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure…

— Diane Wakoski

Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

— Campbell McGrath

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

— Robert E. Howard

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed…

— Edward Hirsch

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to…

— Stephen Spender

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

— Robert Morgan

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

— Louis Kronenberger

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all…

— Robert Hass