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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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I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. – Robert Morgan

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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. – 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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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me theyre more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I havent the least idea of where poetry is going. – James Laughlin

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. – Herbert Spencer

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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals cant read any poetry. – Randall Jarrell

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