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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. – 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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The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. – Robert Morgan

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. – Robert Morgan

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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. – Richard Eyre

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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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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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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