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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me th

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me theyre more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I havent the least idea of where poetry is going. – James Laughlin

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I think theres no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. – James Laughlin

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Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesnt 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. – James Laughlin

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I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesnt seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. – James Laughlin

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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. – Norman O. Brown

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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