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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetr

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – Robert Morgan

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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. – 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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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. – Kenneth Koch

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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I dont have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. – Emily Dickinson

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Ive written some poetry I dont understand myself. – Carl Sandburg

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