Quotes from James Laughlin

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.

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 and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

El calendario de la fama Adiós, adiós, mis amadas manos dijo Rachmaninov en su lecho de muerte y Joseph Hofmann, el gran pianista, inventó el limpiaparabrisas de observar su metrónomo Genio que soy, que lo único que puedo hacer es marcar las teclas equivocadas en mi máquina de escribir

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.