#poet

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#baloney #charles #doing #fact #first

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#background #came #chinese #did #i

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#creative #creative writing #helped #i #industry

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#ancient #authority #back #fact #form

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#decision #instead #interested #made #more

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#fact #form #good #make #poetry

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#french #great #modern #modern poetry #more

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#back #deep #dive #does #get