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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast. – Robert Morgan

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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 its timeless, that it reaches back. – Robert Morgan

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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. – Robert Morgan

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Humor
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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. – Robert Morgan

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