American - Publisher | 1949 -
Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.
Jonathan Galassi
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The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.
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If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.
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I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
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The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
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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.
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My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
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I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.
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After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.
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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.
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I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.
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Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.
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