John Fuller Quotes

#1. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But ... it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction ... Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.

John Fuller

#2. When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather ... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.

John Fuller

#3. I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.

John Fuller

#4. Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

John Fuller

#5. It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.

John Fuller

#6. It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

John Fuller

#7. Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.

John Fuller