#poetry

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#courses #doubts #helps #i #people

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

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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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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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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

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