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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.

From Jonathan Galassi

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

From Jonathan Galassi

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

From Jonathan Galassi

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.

From Jonathan Galassi

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

From Jonathan Galassi

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

From Jonathan Galassi

After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.

From Jonathan Galassi

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.

From Jonathan Galassi

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

From Jonathan Galassi

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

From Jonathan Galassi

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