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.
James LaughlinI 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.
James LaughlinI often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.
James LaughlinI think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
James Laughlin