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What actually makes poetry po...

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.

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What language shall I borrow ...

What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee.

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I don't think poetry is somet...

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.

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You have to really dive deep ...

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 84 quotes

With prose you can incorporat...

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

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A poem in form still has to h...

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

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The young people have MTV and...

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.

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The best books of our times h...

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

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Southern poets are still writ...

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

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Part of what we love about po...

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.

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In the later books I am much ...

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

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I have taught students from t...

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.

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Young writers only take off w...

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.

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One of the most powerful devi...

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

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The decision to write in pros...

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.

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The idea of avant-garde art i...

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.

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Teaching writing over the yea...

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

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It was less a literary thing ...

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

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I considered going to film sc...

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

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Alchemy is the art of far and ...

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

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