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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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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery OConnor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. – Robert Morgan

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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. – 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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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. – Author Unknown

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. – James Broughton

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