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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from t

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. – Robert Morgan

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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. Its one of the great things poetry does. – 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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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. – John Drinkwater

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The poet is like the prince of clouds
Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;
Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,
His giant wings prevent him from walking. – Charles Baudelaire

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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. Id like to publish it someday. – Aaron Neville

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