Author: Jonathan Galassi

Quotes

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

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

Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.

Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.

- Jonathan Galassi

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.

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.

- Jonathan Galassi

I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.

I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.

- Jonathan Galassi

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

- Jonathan Galassi

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

- Jonathan Galassi

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

- Jonathan Galassi

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

- Jonathan Galassi

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

- Jonathan Galassi

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