"I don’t think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry." ― Robert Morgan Topic(s): Poetry More From Robert Morgan "I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think." "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." "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." More In Poetry "People’s view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point."― Laura Linney "Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – it’s just that I’m one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well."― Andrew Motion "Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."― Johann Georg Hamann