Quote by Robert Morgan
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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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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I dont think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. – Robert Morgan

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If a poem is not memorable, theres probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. – Richard Eberhart

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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Poetry,—the language of the Imagination and the Passions,—the oldest and most beauteous offspring of Literature. – Frederick Hinde, Poetry, a lecture delivered in London on the evening of April 8

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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. – Robert Morgan

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