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I dont think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. – Robert Morgan

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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. – 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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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater

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If you dont mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and theres no poetry in that. – Glen Hansard

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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. – Mark Strand

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