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Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important

Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. – Robert Morgan

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If a poem is not memorable, theres probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry
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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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Poetry
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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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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. – Isaac Rosenberg

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The pleasure that poetry gives is that of imagining more than is written; the task is divided between the poet and his reader. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. – Laura Riding

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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. – Mark Strand

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