"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
― Robert Morgan
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Poetry
More From Robert Morgan
- "I don’t think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry."
- "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 decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."― John Keats
- "Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That’s what writing is all about."― Wislawa Szymborska
- "I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat."― Alfred Edward Housman