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

Robert Morgan , Poet
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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet....
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 valu...
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think....
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 b...
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 time...
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...
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable...
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....
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry....
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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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...