#poe

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#character #early #i #like #lot

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#avant-garde #being #every #idea #keeps

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

#dead #dead end #end #itself #kind

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

#awakens #back #belongs #go #mtv

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#century #known #long #lot #many

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#country #dearest #describe #does #feel

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#courage #door #into #keep #leads

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#anything #doors #just #listen #off

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#earn #i #more #poet #than

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. ↗