"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think." ― Robert Morgan Topic(s): Poetry More From Robert Morgan "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." "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." "I don’t think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can’t teach them is the very essence of poetry." More In Poetry "Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity."― George Oppen "You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It’s one of the great things poetry does."― Robert Morgan "High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this."― Diane Wakoski