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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancien

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that its timeless, that it reaches back. – 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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What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we cant define it. – Robert Morgan

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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. – John Drinkwater

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In poetry and in eloquence the beautiful and grand must spring from the commonplace…. All that remains for us is to be new while repeating the old, and to be ourselves in becoming the echo of the whole world. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. – Lawrence Summers

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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem. – Maxine Hong Kingston

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