Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible as a contemporary poet.
Quotes By Robert Morgan
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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes...
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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient that it...
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What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We...
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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make...
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A poem in form still has to have voice gesture a sense of discovery a...
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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can...
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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the...
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I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years....
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Some people swear by writing courses but whether it really helps American...
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I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
Quotes About Humor
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Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public...
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The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
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Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was...
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We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
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You may not like the humor but that is why every radio has an on-off button.
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I think superheroes are heroes with flaws and in their flaws there is a...
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Incongruity they say is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's...
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Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written Republican...
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I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They...