"I don’t think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry." ― Robert Morgan Topic(s): Poetry More From Robert Morgan "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." "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." "I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think." More In Poetry "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."― Adrienne Rich "You don’t make a poem with ideas, but with words."― Stephane Mallarme "It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."― Charles Baudelaire