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Quotes by Robert Morgan
- Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
- 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 narrative in verse.
- The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
- The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
- 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.
- 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 dead end.
- 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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