Quote by Robert Morgan
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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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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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. – 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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No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results? – John Barton

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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. – David Lee Roth

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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