Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you’re trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you’re trying to dig into it, analyse yourself. Jonathan Galassi Read Quote
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn’t going to be able to write for a living, and I didn’t have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me – to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be. Jonathan Galassi Read Quote
I’ve always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out. Jonathan Galassi Read Quote
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous. Jonathan Galassi Read Quote
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways. Jonathan Galassi Read Quote