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I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#essence #i #poetry #something #taught

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#anywhere #area #city #else #i

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#barely #blood #bring #draw #getting

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. ↗

— John Morley

#act #any #general #improvement #mankind

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#because #bleeding #ever #find #form

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them. ↗

— Chris Morris

#character #comic #expect #hate #heinous

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#barely #beautiful #beautiful paintings #beautiful things #because

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#inside #mine #names #now #out

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves. ↗

— John Motson

#good #like #pitch #playing #round