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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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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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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – 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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Superstition is the poetry of life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. – Stephen Mallarme

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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. – Caroline Kennedy

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat. – Robert Frost

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