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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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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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 Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. – Robert Morgan

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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. – Lynda Barry

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. – Gertrude Stein

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Ive been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. – Ed Westwick

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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. – Robert Morgan

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