"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
-Robert Morgan
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"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.“
-Robert Morgan
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"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."
-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 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."
-Robert Morgan
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"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."
-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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-Chris O'Donnell
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"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."
-Thom Yorke
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"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."
-Melinda Gates
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