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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ash

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

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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. – Robert Morgan

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Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. – 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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people all my life – thats my trouble. – Charles Olson

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Poetry is reverie on paper. – Terri Guillemets, “Quiet time with my soul,” 1998

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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did. – Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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