Quote by Robert Morgan
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will

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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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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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that its timeless, that it reaches back. – 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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I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesnt seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. – James Laughlin

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. – George Oppen

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. – Stephen Mallarme

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Without philosophy there can be no true poetry: without it pretty verses may, indeed, be made; but in order to be really a poet it is essential to be also, up to a certain point, a philosopher. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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