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James Laughlin Quotes: "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."

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.



James Laughlin Quotes: "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."

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.




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

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



James Laughlin Quotes: "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."

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.




James Laughlin Quotes: "I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago."

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.



James Laughlin Quotes: "I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world."

I think there's 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 Quotes: "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."

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.




James Laughlin Quotes: "[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot."

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.



James Laughlin Quotes: "I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds."

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.