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I dont think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35

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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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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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. – 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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

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The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. – James Gates Percival

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. – Marilyn Hacker

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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

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