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The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. – Robert Morgan

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I dont think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. – 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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