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Poetry Quotes by Robert Morgan
- I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and…
- I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence…
- You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry…
- If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry…
- A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
- I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
- I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
- I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for…
- The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in…
- The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
- Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written…
- The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of…
- Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading…
- Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
- I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke…
- One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to…
- The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
More Poetry Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
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- Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Unknown Author
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh