Quote by Robert Morgan
I dont think the creative writing industry has helped American poe

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

Other quotes by Robert Morgan

I dont think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you cant teach them is the very essence of poetry. – Robert Morgan

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. – Robert Morgan

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

Category:
Poetry

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. – Nicholson Baker

Category:
Poetry

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. – Thomas B. Macaulay

Category:
Poetry

Poetry is mans rebellion against being what he is. – James Branch Cabell

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics. – Stephen Samuel Wise

Category:
Presidents Day

Back in the 70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was The Bad News Bears, and that was a kids movie, but I dont think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids. – Jack Black

Category:
funny

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science. – James Inhofe

Category:
environmental

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, its meaningful, and I like the song. Its a love song – kind of – but its kind of depressing and dark. – Aubrey Plaza

Category:
mom