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But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.
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.
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 Poetry
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
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Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.