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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by t

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. – Robert Morgan

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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 an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. – Robert Morgan

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery OConnor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. – Robert Morgan

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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – Robert Morgan

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates

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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. – Joshua Logan

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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. – English Proverb

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Poetry and prayer are very similar. – Carol Ann Duffy

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I tour alone. Theres no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and its really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, its a new relationship being built. Its odd and wonderful. – Jane Siberry

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I dont care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words. – Josh Billings