"The fact that something is in a rhymed……" — Robert Morgan

"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."

— Robert Morgan

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59 Quotes by Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them…
What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O…
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through…
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach…
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one…
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much…
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to…
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into…
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry…

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More Blank Quotes

This quote is filed under Blank Quotes, one of 539 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes.… — Amy Adams
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.… — John Banville
I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? — Milton Berle
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful… — Elizabeth Blackwell
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. — Paul Cezanne
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were… — Diane Cilento
I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more… — Diablo Cody
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. — Brad Paisley
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning… — Laozi
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and… — Francois Fenelon
Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc. — Drake

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