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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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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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. – Robert Morgan

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi

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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

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