Quote by Robert Morgan
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to defin

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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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. – Robert Morgan

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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. – 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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Deep feeling doesnt make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. – Thom Gunn

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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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