"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
-Robert Morgan
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"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 of poetry.“
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"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 us perceptions that go back to those times."
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"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
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"The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new."
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"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
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"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."
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"For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ."
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