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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time

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

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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast. – Robert Morgan

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A lot happens by accident in poetry. – Howard Nemerov

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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman

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[P]oetry, that pearl of intelligence and life, reflects on our brow some pale rays of the glory that has faded away from it. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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