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James Laughlin

"With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said."

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"With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said."

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Donna Grant

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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Donna Grant

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

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Donna Grant

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

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Donna Grant

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

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Donna Grant

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

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Donna Grant

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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Donna Grant

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

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Donna Grant

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Donna Grant

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

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Donna Grant

"I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining."

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James Laughlin
"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 to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian."

Friendship

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James Laughlin
"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 a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it."

Reading

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James Laughlin
"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."

Work

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James Laughlin
"We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good."

People

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James Laughlin
"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 than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going."

Poetry

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James Laughlin
"Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of."

Literature

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James Laughlin
"I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage."

Love

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

Literature

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James Laughlin
"The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably."

War

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James Laughlin
"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

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