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

— Robert Morgan

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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

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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

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

— Robert Morgan

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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

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Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. ↗

— Robin Morgan

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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. ↗

— Robin Morgan

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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. ↗

— Ted Morgan

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